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RE: Country-City Brain Drain - Freewrite Day 605 - Prompt: Moving to the City
Growing up in small midwest town just outside of a slightly larger midwest town I identify with what you have written. I have been to both Lincoln and Omaha which is nothing special but knowing the areas you mentioned helped me understand better. Well done my friend.
Didn't realize we had that in common - I'm often amazed at how many writers and movie stars started out in the Midwest. That Brain Drain is real. The country may be a great place to raise children and feed their imaginations and enrich their souls... but the cities lure them away. Thanks for the kind words, Ted-Chris-Jack'"whatever works" :) !
Just in case anyone wondered what I was on about that time
I grew up in rural Black Hawk, South Dakota just North of Rapid City and South of Sturgis. We were close to Wyoming,Montana and Nebraska.
Sturgis!!! Are you a Harley fan, or have you seen enough of those to last you a lifetime (as our offspring said once when we got held up in the traffic to the annual Sturgis celebration on our way to the Black Hills)? How fun to find a fellow 'rural origins' Steemian. :)
When a townjumps in size from 6,900 to 495,000 in a few days it is not looked upon as a happy occasion by the locals.
I did buy a leather jacket there one time during the rally when I was a youngster. The motorcycles were fun to look at but I never got the "Harley bug".