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> Somehow we've gotten into a cultural state where everyone expects the place they live to stay exactly as it is for their lifetime. I am trying to find a poli
by alanh 10y ago
> Somehow we've gotten into a cultural state where everyone expects the place they live to stay exactly as it is for their lifetime.
I am trying to find a polite way to indicate that I find this to be a completely absurd reversal of the historical trend. Only within the last few generations, certainly within the last century, has it become so common to relocate far and/or frequently instead of most men living the whole of their lives within a day or two’s ride of their childhood home.
- OvidNaso 10y agoThen how is it our species has colonized most of the planet. Surely their is an intense, universal, drive to migrate.
- hilop 10y agoThe people are migrate are the members of the lower class who are exiled by law or economics or racism.
- clock_tower 10y agoOr lower-middle-class, or otherwise downwardly mobile, and looking to move up; or ideologically motivated. Read Albion's Seed -- the Borderers/Scotch-Irish were poor and exiled, following the model you describe, but the Cavaliers were both downwardly-mobile and eager to create ideological utopias, and the Puritans and Quakers were just looking for places to build utopia -- they were doing well enough economically back in England.