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That's the other unspoken side of the boomer-emulation argument, too. People's access to the world when boomers were buying houses and raising families was much

That's the other unspoken side of the boomer-emulation argument, too. People's access to the world when boomers were buying houses and raising families was much less. Their families and friends were already close because few, if any, of them left where they were from (except to get drafted into wars). In some of those who left, they did so to enable the rest to follow. These things just don't happen anymore. To find better work (especially outside of tech), people move, some constantly. Siblings wind up across the country or further from each other and where they grew up. Elders are either left behind or move into retirement homes. There are exceptions, and those who keep some of that support network find the real boomer superpowers of sharing costs (financial, time, and labor alike) and inheriting wealth. But the ease with which people could leave home for good is one of many factors that make emulating boomers difficult, if not impossible: that rural cheap house isn't 10 minutes from the rest of your family, your childhood friends, and your co-workers anymore.

barry-cotter 1y ago
> Their families and friends were already close because few, if any, of them left where they were from (except to get drafted into wars) Your original text, edited for sequence and clarity while preserving your voice: This doesn’t apply to the U.S. or Canada, nor has it ever since their foundings, possibly excepting some natives. The American frontier was declared closed by 1890, long before the post-WW2 population surge to California. Before that, New Englanders left farmland to settle the Midwest. Later came the Great Migration of mostly Black Southerners to northern cities. Anglophone North America has never been a peasant society where families remained rooted for generations.
- sandworm101 1y ago
  >> peasant society where families remained rooted for generations. I'd hazard that a few parts of Appalachia remained relative stable, and poor, across more than a couple generations.

barry-cotter 1y ago

> Their families and friends were already close because few, if any, of them left where they were from (except to get drafted into wars) Your original text, edited for sequence and clarity while preserving your voice: This doesn’t apply to the U.S. or Canada, nor has it ever since their foundings, possibly excepting some natives. The American frontier was declared closed by 1890, long before the post-WW2 population surge to California. Before that, New Englanders left farmland to settle the Midwest. Later came the Great Migration of mostly Black Southerners to northern cities. Anglophone North America has never been a peasant society where families remained rooted for generations.

sandworm101 1y ago
>> peasant society where families remained rooted for generations. I'd hazard that a few parts of Appalachia remained relative stable, and poor, across more than a couple generations.