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Most Rural town lack jobs, There main export is there kids, From what I've read, and seen most Rural town, support there school, and the kids get a good education, move on to college or into the work force. But the town are hurting as the kids leave to find work, they never get back. The population start to go down, There are less people to buy the stuff so the stores close.
It's sad. I was really considering to teach out in the Midwest (I'm from the East Coast). There were two deterrents though - the demographics and the tornadoes! Like you said, most of the kids move on to college never to return. Some don't want to return to the "slow life" while others stay where the jobs are. I'm in my mid 20s and it'd be difficult for me to find people my own age with whom to associate. And then, of course, tornadoes are fairly self explanatory
Tornadoes are unlikely to strike you, though. I've been near two in my life. One injured a person. Both did some damage. They didn't last long and didn't come near my house. A tornado is no more likely to kill you than a flood or a hurricane or an earthquake. Any where you go has its dangers. You just learn to deal with them. I'd rather live in the Midwest and deal with tornadoes than live on the Gulf Coast and deal with hurricanes every other year (at least) or on the West Coast and deal with earthquakes.
Most kids or residents where I live do leave, but most don't seem to go far. They go to the larger cities in the area. Some go very far away, but most I know of either stay within 150 miles or leave for college and come back. Of course, it depends on what their occupation is.
Having grown up in the midwest, and taught in the midwest, I can safely say that as major deterrants go,Very valid concerns about being able to find like-minded peers of a similar age in a small community teaching district are a much bigger deal than the remote chance you will be seriously affected by a tornado.
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