• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    The number of people who live and die in the city where they were born is too high. People should desire change and expansion of opportunities. I can’t imagine staying put. Complacency is accepting boredom.

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      1 month ago

      The number of people who live and die in the city they were born is too high

      For who?

      People should desire change and expansion of opportunities

      Why?

      I can’t imagine staying put.

      That’s ok, you can move as you please

      Complacency is accepting boredom

      Who said they’re complacent or bored?

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        1 month ago

        Who said they’re complacent or bored?

        Each of my family members who agreed that there’s not much to do in the city where we just visited them.

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      I recently met someone who had lived in the same little town their entire life. My mind was boggled. I can’t imagine living like that

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      Agreed, but like how do you fix it? Moving is expensive and difficult the farther away from your starting point you go. That’s something that has to be prioritized and even then, it’s not always attainable.

      Without at least some economic privilege and luck, it’s not an option for most people. Certainly there are a group of people who would like to move and cannot because of reasons they find more compelling.

      The people who would move but can’t, aren’t all of the people that don’t move far from where they are born. It could be complacency, but it could also be contentedness. The people who stay put usually have much stronger social structures than people who move around, which is not nothing.