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if they're healthy and successful why would they leave? the families with college kids of send their chilluns to school, but plenty return. and with high COL
by red-iron-pine 3y ago
if they're healthy and successful why would they leave? the families with college kids of send their chilluns to school, but plenty return. and with high COL exploding in many cities, all the more reason to come home, esp. if their people are already successful in such areas
- jjk166 3y ago> if they're healthy and successful why would they leave? Because they could be even more healthy and even more successful, or simply just happier, elsewhere. People who can leave will always leave more often than people who can't. > the families with college kids of send their chilluns to school, but plenty return. And plenty don't. Again, those that never leave stay at a higher rate. > and with high COL exploding in many cities, all the more reason to come home, esp. if their people are already successful in such areas The more wealth you have, the less you are deterred by high COL. And COL only goes up in cities because people are willing to pay a premium to live there, often for the economic opportunities.
- hx8 3y agoWhy do people do this? It's an observed fact that The United States is still going through the process of urbanization as a lower percentage of the population lives in rural areas compared to urban/suburban [0]. In the rural areas I am personally familiar with the population is decreasing while nearby metropolitan areas have increasing populations. Since the 18th century humanity has experienced a large concentration inside cities. Who am I to say hundreds of millions of humans made the wrong choice. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_sovereign_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_sovereign_stat...