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I know it's not the same, culturally, but there is something similar that happens within the U.S. Places like Texas, New York, and California have historically

I know it's not the same, culturally, but there is something similar that happens within the U.S. Places like Texas, New York, and California have historically had lots of scientists and engineers move there from places like Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Wyoming. This is also true of computer programmers. Of course, within the U.S. it is not generally as noticed or lamented, but probably it is harder to get a scientific or engineering hub started when most of the locals who are interested in that sort of thing keep moving away. Again, not saying it doesn't have different causes and consequences in the EU, just that it's not totally different, either.

iguy 8y ago
Something similar has long happened even within EU countries. Gregory Clark was giving talks about historical data on this in England, looking roughly for signals of people who were born in the north, got rich, and tended to move south -- as many did. https://voxeu.org/article/decline-northern-england-1780-2018 https://voxeu.org/article/decline-northern-england-1780-2018 He goes so far as to claim that this migration has been strong enough to explain much of the present economic differences between north & south.