youth exodus
Young people leaving
Youth exodus is the widespread departure of young people from a place—typically a rural area, small town, or economically depressed region—in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
The phrase usually describes a demographic trend rather than individual moves: The youth exodus has left many farming communities without a next generation.
Brain drain captures a similar idea but emphasizes education and skills rather than age.
- brain drainEmigration of skilled workers
- young peopleThose in early life
- migrationMovement to new territory
- departureAct of going away
- moving awayChanging residence location
leaving · packing up · hometown · rural · dying towns · left behind · hollowed out · opportunity · big city · jobs · cities · bright lights · generation · millennials · fleeing · abandon · small town · decline
- rural declinedepopulation, brain drain, outmigration, dying towns, ghost towns
- secularizationsecularization, dechristianization, disaffiliation, church closures, church-state separation
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- Greek Politicsjunta, military junta, colonels, coalition government, ministers
- urban demographicspopulation density, urban migration, population boom, city growth, headcount