There are media stories all over the place about the migration of high skill, high pay workers out of the Bay Area and other parts of California, as well as other sinks of iniquity.
Charles Murray is the author of “Belmont and Fishtown”, a book that delves at some length into a collection of social mores that have emerged since the 1960s.
This is inspired by a WSJ article, which I couldn’t read online ‘cause I’m not a subscriber, but it doesn’t take much searching to find much of the material they started with.
Those of you who play Risk may remember a “country” named Yakutsk. This is more precisely a Russian province in Siberia. Until recently, it has been a pretty isolated location.