[coldtea]

Parent didn't try to contradict the grant parent, nor they tried to address their "principle dilemma" (sic).

They merely provided an alternate hypothesis on the root cause of population mobility: not an overall increase of career opportunities attracting people away from their hometown, but a scarcity of career opportunities, where mostly jobs clustered in larger cities remain.

Maybe refrain calling other comments "jerky and irrelevant" when you've missed their point, and don't even understand their aim?