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...Things shifted when we all moved to cities for work, international travel, our flats became 30 square meters large and we were “unrooted” = not having the so
by laurent92 6y ago
...Things shifted when we all moved to cities for work, international travel, our flats became 30 square meters large and we were “unrooted” = not having the social fabric to know someone who has a house. Best case, we’d rent something from AirBnb for NYE in the mountains. Things stayed in bars until we started having our own houses, so between 20 and 35-40...
The problem of “unrooting” (emigrating, being nomad and torn from the social fabric) is a serious civilizational issue, similar to when workers in XVIIIth were poorer than farmers of the same social level, because they had no land if things went bad.