Is it really hard to grasp that people like abundant social opportunity, commerce, and culture? Within a walk from your door? Urbanization is at least 5000 years old.

That is mainly it for those that willingly choose to go into the cities. Other demographics include people born into it, it is their projected cave, they enjoy living like a caged bird until they realize the limitations imposed upon their freedoms. Many would leave, but how can the average person leave when the meager pay barely affords anyone the opportunity to sell unless they think outside the box and make drastic moves.

Then there are those, communists and sheep, that are revolted by the idea of 'fly-over' states because of the propaganda that has been fed to them about it. I told a few people of my plans to someday hit a red state and they were in deep panic about the dangers they heard according to their CNN oracle.

I was also told there is less variability for work in the country vs the cities. Whether that is true or valid will probably vary from person to person and from red state to red state.