This is Planet Money from NPR.

In 2009, James Massey was in grad school.

He was studying at a small university in San Antonio, Texas.

Getting a master's degree in public administration.

So you were like this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed grad student studying how to become a bureaucrat,

basically.

I feel attacked.

Sorry.

No, that's correct.

We're learning how to run the government.

Undergraduate from his program, James needed an internship in city government.

But when he was looking around at all the ones available, none of them quite matched his

grad student idealism at the time.

It wasn't, hey, James, we're building Utopia, come join us.

It was, where do you want to learn and hone your skills?

He didn't want some boring paperwork filing internship.

He wanted one that gave him real-world experience.

Give me the city that hasn't started yet.

Let me start doing everything for the ground up.

So James looks around and he hears about this place called Vaughan Army, just 20 minutes

south of San Antonio.

It's a brand new city.

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