Juggler told me something similar a few years ago, that what he teaches doesn't work except in large metro areas

Juggler comes from, and developed skills in, a college town of about 100,000 people, so I'm surprised.

I suspect that, if you're a student, college towns' social flexibility is more like considerably larger towns-- the transient student population means that social networks have much less institutional memory than a stable population of the same size.