More journalists are leaving big cities — and finding America

As a teenager growing up in a rural Georgia town in the early 2000s, Alison Miller counted the days until she could move away for good. Bound for New York City after high school, she could think of nothing worse than “a continued existence in Hartwell, Georgia.”

“I could not wait to leave,” she said.

Miller studied journalism at New York University and dived into a career of magazine journalism. She secured internships at premier publications and landed a full-time gig at Travel and Leisure. New opportunities in the industry took her to other cities over the years, but eventually, Miller found herself going full circle. Today she’s back in Georgia, living near the place she once vowed never to settle down.

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