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The author view as portrayed in the title is rather bizzare. She also doesn't justify it aside from her essentially day dreaming things would be that way.
As someone who grew up in rural Canada. It's pretty clear that a significant amount of people would leave to seek better employment opportunities by the last few years of high school.
Eh. The author saw potential for a thriving life and community in their home, and didn't see what other locations had that their home didn't. They saw the potential - the human and natural resources they grew up around - and couldn't understand why no one wanted to actualize it.
What they missed was that society lies to us about what drives prosperity in our current economy. The thing that other places have that Atlantic Canada lacks is not ingenuity, or work effort, or desire, or natural resources.
It's money.
There's no reason it couldn't happen here, except all of the money is over there, and the people who control it are never going to (willingly) loosen their grip.
If you don't see that, for some reason, it feels arbitrary.