Cosentino: Is there really a brain drain?

The common mantra (even used in this column from time to time) is that there is a massive “brain drain” of our “best and brightest” from Central New York outward to bigger cities and to the South and West. The perception is that these young people, who in previous generations gave stability to the region, are lost, that their brain power, capital and potential productivity and volunteerism are sucked away.