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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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      Premium mediocre is narrativium engineering

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Linking in the personal decision thread here https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226382240956866560?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226382240956866560 …

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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” ... Megacities: unsustainably overpriced Schelling points from hell.
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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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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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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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      I think I have a whole unconscious narrative-extension theory of geographic mobility that I operate by. I should write it up. Everybody actually operates by this but pretends they are operating by their spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is important but only 1/3 of what’s going on.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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      There are pseudocharismatic cities with cliched narrative chapter roles that they parody more than embody. Austin, Portland, Raleigh strike me that way. They’re parodies of their own “retreat from tech narratives”.

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