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This doesn’t ring true to me at all. My Irish high school friends have scattered to the winds. And in my adopted European city everyone I know is from somewher
by rocketbop 3y ago
This doesn’t ring true to me at all. My Irish high school friends have scattered to the winds.
And in my adopted European city everyone I know is from somewhere else. Europe isn’t one thing though maybe where you are your scenario is the norm.
- avar 3y agoIt is true. Only around 60% of Americans reside in the state they were born in. Whereas the median foreign born population in the EU in total is around 10-15%, and an even smaller percentage of that is internal EU migration. In both cases it's going to be migration from say New York to New Jersey, or The Netherlands to Belgium. So in terms of tearing up your roots it's not much of a move. But Americans routinely move from say Miami to Seattle or whatever for a job. Distance-wise that's like Ireland to Greece or Turkey. We Europeans simply don't do that at the same rate, although it's gradually on the increase.
- rocketbop 3y agoI’m not sure that’s like for like. Moving state in the US is not comparable with moving between European countries because of linguistic differences. Moving to another city in the same country is popular. And even in terms of not moving city the image of people settling down in the same part of the city that they grew up and all being near their high school friends is just not reality.
- avar 3y agoIt's not in general, but the topic here is keeping in touch with your friends and family, not the relative culture shock of moving domestically or internationally. The real metric you'd want is travel time to "home base" in hours. I'm just suggesting that inter-state/country moves are a useful fuzzy approximation of that.
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