The rural communities of Yorkshire, a historic county in northern England, the largest territorial entity of its kind in the region, are losing young people.

Shortages of jobs, lack of career opportunities and lack of affordable housing force young people to leave the places where they were born and raised. Add to this the poverty of broadband, which makes business and job creation difficult, as well as lack of public transportation, and people aged 20 to 30 may think that leaving is better than staying.

Finding a home on the outskirts of York or Harrogate helps find a better balance between the needs of a young family and the sense of countryside around them. Last year, the City Center Research Center published a study that found that over a million young people have left small towns and villages over the past three decades to search work in the cities.

And it is not surprising that the number of students in local schools is steadily decreasing. And if, due to the lack of students, they begin to close in larger numbers, this will aggravate the destruction of the social structure of the village. Schools foster friendships not only between students, but also their families.

However, to me the opinion of too many politicians in the UK, rural life and the countryside is a kind of chocolate box image frozen in time, while it is a vital cog in the country's economy. Successive successive governments have done almost nothing for the rural economy.