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The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom
(lemmy.world)
Edit: source with some more info
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html
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.
For who?
Why?
That's ok, you can move as you please
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.
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.
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