Young Professionals Return Home, and Stay – Cities are launching "boomerang" efforts to bring their young professionals back home.

I grew up in the kind of place people tend to leave. Almost from the time I was born back in the ’50s, the factories were closing, the population was stagnant and the kids who went away to college never came back. Much as I love my little upstate New York hometown, I couldn’t help but think that the best days were in the past.

The last few times I’ve been home, however, I’ve noticed more and more people coming back. And oddly enough, the ones who come back most often tend to be people who, like me, moved across the country to Los Angeles in search of wider opportunities. One couple bailed from the entertainment industry, moved back home and started a live theater downtown. Another couple left behind a small chain of high-end restaurants catering to the film industry — and their parents, who retired in Southern California.

BY: William Fulton

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