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> I don't imagine this sentiment would go down well with most Americans (who I assume live in small towns?) http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-pop

by pnathan 10y ago

> I don't imagine this sentiment would go down well with most Americans (who I assume live in small towns?) http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-population-what-does-urban-really-mean/1589/ http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-population-w... It's complex. But populationwise, we're mostly in larger towns. > One of the things I found incredibly surprising in America is just how much people do not like to move; especially those living in small towns to bigger cities. So we have a situation where the cities are attracting people from other countries often many oceans away, and the people living in the same state are unwilling to move out of their home towns. this is novel for America. Traditionally Americans moved all the time.

tnecniv 10y ago
> this is novel for America. Traditionally Americans moved all the time. I always thought that moving to the "big city" when you are young was a part of the American tradition while I was growing up (my parents and the parents of most of my friends did so), but perhaps I was mistaken.
- pnathan 10y ago
  http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-47.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-47.h... Take a look. :-(
- amyjess 10y ago
  Growing up in the northern suburbs of Dallas, it was simply treated as a given that my classmates and I were all the children of transplants. Often, our parents came here from much bigger cities because they got tired of urban life and the associated high cost of living and wanted an inexpensive house in the safety of the suburbs. Funnily enough, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA is now the fourth-largest metro area in the entire country precisely because of people like my parents and my classmates' parents. My parents are both from NYC, and I never thought it odd even in the slightest that they moved halfway across the country about five years before I was born.

by pnathan 10y ago

tnecniv 10y ago

> this is novel for America. Traditionally Americans moved all the time. I always thought that moving to the "big city" when you are young was a part of the American tradition while I was growing up (my parents and the parents of most of my friends did so), but perhaps I was mistaken.

pnathan 10y ago
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-47.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-47.h... Take a look. :-(
amyjess 10y ago
Growing up in the northern suburbs of Dallas, it was simply treated as a given that my classmates and I were all the children of transplants. Often, our parents came here from much bigger cities because they got tired of urban life and the associated high cost of living and wanted an inexpensive house in the safety of the suburbs. Funnily enough, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA is now the fourth-largest metro area in the entire country precisely because of people like my parents and my classmates' parents. My parents are both from NYC, and I never thought it odd even in the slightest that they moved halfway across the country about five years before I was born.