Wonder if you could compute the “story premium” of a city somehow, in terms of per capita gdp and rentbor something.
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The narrativium is strong in charismatic big cities
People go because they feel a story void, they leave because waiting to be cast in a role gets too costly. If you’re lucky you leave with a new story that doesn’t require a million-people worth of narrativium critical mass
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Premium mediocre is narrativium engineering
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I’ll know where/how to move out of Charismatic Bigcity world when I make up my personal post-premium-mediocre story.
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Home ownership was probably the big story between civil war and WW2 in the US. That got locked down and tied to urban futures by the civil rights era. Today, the story of your home is entirely a function of the story of your city. So you bet on cities.
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People commenting that this charismatic cities saga has always been the case. Not true. The shift of civilizational center of gravity from rural to urban wasn’t complete till WW2 even in the west. Before then cities were charismatic sidekicks.
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University towns are interesting. They’ve played a small but continuous role since about 900 AD, and more patchily (and merged with monastic cities) before that. But it took state intervention (eg Morrill land grant) to prevent them from converging with charismatic big cities.
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Linking in the personal decision thread here
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“Where to live next year” decision is turning out to be NP-hard.
Wife and I are gleefully vetoing each other’s ideas and getting nowhere.
“Too snowy”
“Too dry”
“I need a decent airport”
“Need a Whole Foods”
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Megacities: unsustainably overpriced Schelling points from hell.
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6 reasons people move from city A to B:
- got a nice oppportunity in B that overrode any A/B prefs
- hate A, took the first exit
- love B, took the first entry point regardless of cost
- tax/citizenship issues
- cutting costs
- family responsibilities (child/elder)
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