“When I was in high school,” the essayist Anne P. Beatty recently wrote, “ambition meant two things: escaping my hometown and becoming a writer”.
The idea that young people’s futures are best served by moving away from small towns and rural areas to big cities is deeply ingrained. The sociologist David Farrugia has described this as the the “metrocentricy of youth”. However questions remain about whether moving away is always that easy and whether it is always the best way to achieve what you want in life.
