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I live in a small city surrounded by small towns. I get it. The world moves too fast and most of our life is spent sleeping or looking at screens. The only time

I live in a small city surrounded by small towns. I get it. The world moves too fast and most of our life is spent sleeping or looking at screens. The only time you put the screen down you experience reality. I could handle all of that, but to add geographic separation from your family and friends of many years? For many people, being poor with family outweighs being lower-middle-class far away.

cardiffspaceman 10y ago
I live in one of California's larger cities. Some of my relatives live in a resort town that is flooded with city people during the season. When driving I sometimes find myself waiting my turn at a tricky intersection, behind a family member who I know is not impaired or anything. Yet they take FOREVER to negotiate the intersection. EVERY thing is slower in that town. And I have relatives in Oregon who live in a university town but hate going to Portland, which is equally slowly paced to me as the university town. Same deal. And come to think of it, they would have family in Portland so there wouldn't necessarily be isolation, just change. I think this confirms the general impression that the young might make the move to the city for a job, but the less young have a bigger adaptation to make. It would be interesting to see some good polls on this.