People will read this article and draw possibly misleading conclusions about the entire country. Emigration is certainly a problem everywhere in Albania, but no

People will read this article and draw possibly misleading conclusions about the entire country. Emigration is certainly a problem everywhere in Albania, but northeastern Albania where the town in question is located, is a special case. It has always been, for centuries, the poorest, most backward part of the country, unable to benefit from trade and intellectual exchange with more prosperous neighbors like other regions of Albania could. Even within the country people were moving en masse from there to Shkodër near the coast, or Tirana.