“...Well-educated people tend to live in places like Portland, New York and San Francisco...”
I live in the countryside, outside a city of 30,000 in Montana.
My neighbors are:
Retired FBI Bureau Chief (He’s not to be trusted)
Retired Astro-Physisit and Astronaut
Plastic Surgeon
Retired Anesthesiologist
Architect
College Professor, PhD in Engineering
Physician and owner of two cancer clinics, one on each coast
Retired Army Colonel
Retired Lawyer
Real Estate Appraiser
These verifiably smart people don’t want to live in any lunatic city!
Not attacking you, artichokegrower, just using your post as a foil against Brooks’ words.
My neighbors are smarter than HIS neighbors.