Idaho Cursed Soil

As anyone that grew up or lived in Pocatello, Idaho for any amount of time can attest, the city is a kind of vortex for odd things. The strangest of which, is without a doubt, the pull the city has on it's residents. While most people in Pocatello want to leave, most fail. People leave the city in droves every year, most of them returning mere months later in defeat. It's not that the outside world is too much for the residents, or that they realize some horrible mistake and return happily, nothing like that, they have no choice. The city of Pocatello, ID is cursed, the very ground itself prevents the people that live there from escaping. Those blessed few that do leave and stay away attribute their success to many things, but in some cases they were clearly never truly residents to begin with, and the city rejected them. Others, in a desperate attempt to escape the vortex bring the very soil that had trapped them along, allowing them to leave the little valley and escape into the world beyond. You can find small bottles of cursed soil across the country, all carefully secured in fear that it should spill, the wind should whisk away the dirt, and the owner would once again succumb to the siren call of that distant little city. Irresistible...