The bleak economy forced young people to seek work elsewhere. Even County Magistrate Yang Chiu-Hsing confesses that almost all of those that lived in Kaohsiung but went north and studied with him at National Taiwan University remained in Taipei to work.
經濟蕭條也迫使年輕人外出工作，連縣長楊秋興也坦承，當初和他一起北上就讀台大的同學，幾乎清一色留在台北就業。