Why educated millennials leave Idaho

Recently, Ethan Mansfield unearthed a 2007 photo showing several people kicking back at hot springs near Lowman. The group, including Mansfield, had just graduated from Boise High School. Fifteen grinning grads wearing swimsuits crowded into the frame. Today, Mansfield is one of just two living in Idaho. He returned to Boise after graduating from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Now a regional economist at the Idaho Department of Labor, Mansfield said he looks at his bright and talented classmates in the photo who left Idaho and cringes at the implications for his state’s economy. “It’s a little sobering,” he said. “I get a little depressed living in Idaho sometimes, and this doesn’t help”/ Zach Kyle , Idaho Statesman. More here .

Question: My son (MD/PhD degrees) and my daughter (master’s degree) left Idaho and never looked back. They’re part of the brain drain that Idaho politicians seem to accept as part of creating this low-wage-state utopia. Thoughts?