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I've uprooted once and found it very difficult. When you move to a new city, you basically have to build a new circle of friends from scratch. Making close frie

I've uprooted once and found it very difficult. When you move to a new city, you basically have to build a new circle of friends from scratch. Making close friends takes time, years, and you face a bootstrapping problem: it's much harder to make new friends when you have no friends. I honestly don't get why some people want to do that multiple times within their life. Call me cynical, but nomadism like this just seems like another form of consumerism to me. You're consuming living experiences I guess, but you're never really building anything long-term anywhere. As soon as you get close to people, after a few years, you leave it all behind, move on to the next thing? I'd just be afraid of waking up at 50 and realizing I have no close friends anywhere.

fock 6y ago
And also in most cases, anything remotely similar to a social fabric just vanishes. While I guess that the old tight-knit village is not something we should go back to, it both provided social stability and fulfilled needs. I think this is still something people will need and while you can supplant relationships with long-distance jet-setting and intimacy with tinder-driven hookups neither of that is really contributing to a stable society but just eroding it currently (people who are just moving away from problems are not solving them and the ecological perspective of GP is just insane!)...
alcover 6y ago
'Cause everybody hates a tourist Especially one who, who thinks it's all such a laugh -- Pulp, Common People
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  that's about a class tourist though
  - alcover 6y ago
    You're right but I was hinting to friendship-tourism.
devit 6y ago
You don't need "friends" (which often are not really friends anyway), just have at least one scene where you find yourself at ease and go to public places or gatherings about it. For instance, one could go to programming meetups, or conscious dance events, or gay sex clubs, etc.

fock 6y ago

And also in most cases, anything remotely similar to a social fabric just vanishes. While I guess that the old tight-knit village is not something we should go back to, it both provided social stability and fulfilled needs. I think this is still something people will need and while you can supplant relationships with long-distance jet-setting and intimacy with tinder-driven hookups neither of that is really contributing to a stable society but just eroding it currently (people who are just moving away from problems are not solving them and the ecological perspective of GP is just insane!)...

alcover 6y ago

'Cause everybody hates a tourist Especially one who, who thinks it's all such a laugh -- Pulp, Common People

cblconfederate 6y ago
that's about a class tourist though
- alcover 6y ago
  You're right but I was hinting to friendship-tourism.

devit 6y ago

You don't need "friends" (which often are not really friends anyway), just have at least one scene where you find yourself at ease and go to public places or gatherings about it. For instance, one could go to programming meetups, or conscious dance events, or gay sex clubs, etc.