Quote Originally Posted by SWMAP View Post
Dayton has used internships as a glue to keep recent graduates, and the city found through a recent survey that graduates were twice as likely to stay if they had done an internship at a local business. One of them, Richard Kaiser, who graduated from Wright State University, stayed in Dayton, because it was cheaper and seemed faster to advance in a career, a choice he does not regret. Friends who moved to Chicago, he said, “ended up sitting at home and drinking cheap beer and playing video games every night.”

for the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us...behind.html?hp

I guess we think its all glam in Chicago!
The White kids [[mainly) that come to Chicago come for job opportunities and the lifestyle. They may be low-level retail workers or highly paid contractors on LaSalle Street, but I doubt they are sitting at home drinking cheap beer. Those are the college students at Northwestern and U of C.