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Brain Drain: Someone Who Stayed

By Ryan Morden

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Syracuse, NY – All week we've been examining the exodus of young people in upstate New York. In part 4 of our series, Innovation Trail's Ryan Morden visits with the exception, not the rule: a person who left upstate New York for life in a nearby big city, but ultimately moved back.

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