Growing up I made good friends twice, we moved shortly afterwards. You might notice there’s a difference in the US between people who have childhood friends, family and roots in the place they live. They have a lot of useful connections and are more likely to have a social support system. The rest of us live like refugees in many ways without a connection to a local culture.

Cities and towns used to make things that the people there used. Economy of scale centralized production. So now you need to move out of state to get a job, and move again as industry moves. Comparative advantage in economics is that a country is better off focusing on what it’s good at and let other things be done elsewhere, even if it’s better at the thing it gives up. This is used as justification to replace high wage manufacturing jobs with low wage service jobs.
If you want a meaningful life for your children, they need to grow up in a place they can stay and build a life like a normal human.
July 17th, 2017