Young people are leaving their homes from rural areas to study or work in the cities. What are the reasons? Do advantages of this development outweigh its disadvantages?

The youth

is largely migrating

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has largely migrated

from small towns to

metropolies

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

metropolis

looking for education as well employment opportunities, since rural regions are suffering with poor infrastructure and lack of businesses. From my perspective. Personally, the drawback of

this

trend

overcome

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overcomes

the benefits. The

first

motivation for the new generation leaving their hometowns is having

an

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a

university diploma, as most cities in the countryside only offer

high-school

a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12

highschool

degrees,

therefore

, most young adults move to urban areas to have a higher qualification.

For instance

, demographic studies have shown that immigration rates among recently graduated students is higher than among other citizens, commonly to enrol in a college.

Secondly

, several companies are moving to either larger cities or developing countries, which leads to a drastic reduction of job opportunities to the population, as a consequence, young people are forced to look for positions in other regions.

This

migration behaviour is detrimental to villages and small towns, because it decreases public funds to be invested by the government, due to the decreasing number of

tax payers

someone who pays taxes

taxpayers

, which include citizens and companies,

consequently

negativelly

in a harmful manner

negatively

affecting the public budget of education, health care, and security.

Moreover

, metropolitan cities tend to become overpopulated thanks to the massive rural migration,

consequently

causing problems as

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undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

pollution

, traffic, and high

realstate

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real state

prices.

For example

, Vancouver had a 500% increased in housing prices from 2013 to 2018, due to the high demand of movers. To conclude, the youth's interest of moving to

metropolies

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

metropolises

as caused by the lack of opportunities of high-level education and companies. From my perspective, not only does

this

trend is negative for small towns, but

also

for

metropolies

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the metropolis

metropolis

.