PBS NewsHour

Why millennials are moving away from large urban centers

Clip: 12/02/2019 | 6m 45s | Video has closed captioning.

For years, rural areas and small towns consistently lost some of their most talented young people, who moved to urban centers. But recent census data indicates that this “brain drain” phenomenon is subsiding as both millennials and more Americans of all ages are increasingly choosing to live in suburbs and smaller cities. Jeffrey Brown travels to Montana to find out what's driving the migration.