Texarkanaag69 said:
Just curious, Tech folks make an argument for a new Vet school to service the livestock industry in west Texas apparently convinced that all of those Vets are going to stay in the high plains/panhandle area. Interesting that Teton got about as far away from the plains/panhandle area as you can get and still be in the USofA.
Tech is getting a vet school almost entirely because aTm refused to turn out large animal vets. There has been a huge need for large animal vets in that part of Texas/country for years. aTm pretty much trained vets that only wanted to treat dogs and cats. Only when the Texas government decided that this shortage needed to be addressed did aTm scramble to try and provide training to address this need. Too little too late. Tech's school curriculum will have a defined focus on large animals.
People tend to live in whatever area of the country that their career dictates. Will every Tech trained vet stay in the panhandle? No but a good portion will because that is where their training will dictate that their career opportunities are there.
So by using your "logic" if you graduated from aTm and don't live in the College Station area/central Texas area then you wanted to get away because you didn't like it. Ok. That means the great majority of aggies "escaped" from having to live there. Of course, you probably live there in your parents house. In retirement I chose to move to JH full time. Have had a second home here for years that my kids and grandkids LOVE to visit. Two of my kids and their families live in the NW of the US because of their careers. None live in Texas anymore. Now we are driving distance away and they can visit us frequently to enjoy all there is to do here.
BTW, you do realize that CS is much closer to the border with Mexico and the Gulf coast than Jackson Hole is to the border with Canada or the Pacific Ocean. So I guess CS is barely in the US of A as you put it.