True, but there's still a difference. If you graduate with 50k student debt, say in CS, you're absolutely urged to work in your niche field where you're compens

True, but there's still a difference. If you graduate with 50k student debt, say in CS, you're absolutely urged to work in your niche field where you're compensated for your new expertise and can pay back the loan. That may mean moving to a particular place with an industry that caters to this niche. If you did vocational (e.g. apprenticeship) schooling and graduate with little or no debt, that urgency is far smaller, and it tends to be much less of a niche. i.e., there's less debt pressure to pursue work that adequately compensates for your new knowledge, and there's more places (nearby) as you don't work in a niche as much.