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Inertia. Fear of change. Cost of living, moving. Friends. Satisfaction. Myopia.

by slantaclaus 8y ago

SubiculumCode 8y ago
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- sp332 8y ago
  I think this gets overlooked a lot. "Why don't you move?" "Uh, because I live here."
  - SubiculumCode 8y ago
    Community is important. Friends, way of life, values, food, out doors living, fishing, hunting, days at the river drinking beer, a support system in place with neighbors helping out. So there are good things that can keep you in a place. But there is also that when you have little, all those things are harder to give up. Find yourself in a city where no one knows you, no one cares, and the things you found easy before, aren't easy anymore. Poverty presents so many barriers that it really hard to see the inertia it presents.
    - hinkley 8y ago
      Given the sort of value judgements on this list, one might expect that a boom town will be over-represented with a mix of people who have no fear, nothing to lose, or no strong attachments (a superset of “people who don’t give a shit about anybody else”). Some of those traits are maladaptive for long term stability of the town and its industries. Now I wonder how this feeds into the boom/bust trope...
      - closeparen 8y ago
        Isn’t it pretty normal to have “no fear, nothing to lose, and no strong attachments” as a fresh college graduate? Those are more phases of life than character traits. Graduate, explore, slowly put down roots, then stay rooted until your own children leave the nest and start to do the same.
        freshhawk 8y ago
        No, it is normal for graduates with rich parents as a safety net to play act these traits. I think the comment mean actually having no fear, nothing to lose and no strong attachments.
        closeparen 8y ago
        Is having a 22-year-old living at home any more expensive than having a 17-year-old? Presumably their bed is still there, the marginal cost of an extra portion in each recipe was already accounted for, and they don’t outgrow clothes as quickly. The safety net of moving back in with mom and dad does not require mom and dad to be rich.

Inertia. Fear of change. Cost of living, moving. Friends. Satisfaction. Myopia.

SubiculumCode 8y ago

Home.

sp332 8y ago
I think this gets overlooked a lot. "Why don't you move?" "Uh, because I live here."
- SubiculumCode 8y ago
  Community is important. Friends, way of life, values, food, out doors living, fishing, hunting, days at the river drinking beer, a support system in place with neighbors helping out. So there are good things that can keep you in a place. But there is also that when you have little, all those things are harder to give up. Find yourself in a city where no one knows you, no one cares, and the things you found easy before, aren't easy anymore. Poverty presents so many barriers that it really hard to see the inertia it presents.
  - hinkley 8y ago
    Given the sort of value judgements on this list, one might expect that a boom town will be over-represented with a mix of people who have no fear, nothing to lose, or no strong attachments (a superset of “people who don’t give a shit about anybody else”). Some of those traits are maladaptive for long term stability of the town and its industries. Now I wonder how this feeds into the boom/bust trope...
    - closeparen 8y ago
      Isn’t it pretty normal to have “no fear, nothing to lose, and no strong attachments” as a fresh college graduate? Those are more phases of life than character traits. Graduate, explore, slowly put down roots, then stay rooted until your own children leave the nest and start to do the same.
      - freshhawk 8y ago
        No, it is normal for graduates with rich parents as a safety net to play act these traits. I think the comment mean actually having no fear, nothing to lose and no strong attachments.
        closeparen 8y ago
        Is having a 22-year-old living at home any more expensive than having a 17-year-old? Presumably their bed is still there, the marginal cost of an extra portion in each recipe was already accounted for, and they don’t outgrow clothes as quickly. The safety net of moving back in with mom and dad does not require mom and dad to be rich.