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When returning home feels like moving backward

I want to move back to my hometown after college but everyone says I would be wasting my education and opportunities.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The assumption that mobility only moves in one direction creates a false binary between success and rootedness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”

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