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		seanmcdirmid on Sept 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan's Hometown Tax (2018) It is way worse in a state like Wyoming: https://wyomingtruth.org/brain-drain-majority-of-university-... (66% leave after graduation). Utah, however, is pretty good about keeping its graduates in state (as well as grabbing some of Wyoming's).

screye on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

The real question is whether Wyoming should be a state at all. With 1 million distributed over a vast rural area and no real city.... ofc young people are leaving.

America has a 40x gap between its smallest and largest state. Leaving Wyoming is the same as leaving SF for San Jose in population terms.

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