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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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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Yo didn’t you do some data analysis of BLS data on where people tend to move to from different cities?
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Flow mapped County-to-County Migration Flows
from the Census.
flowmap.blue/1uGaROER7uvjlc
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Love to!
Would recommend grokking work from @urbanclio who studies and has some fab lectures on Social Flows
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More here:
Used Pew Survey to compute New Age Stat
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Diversity Stat bit.ly/USA_DiversityS calculates Simpson's Diversity Index for every Census Tract in America.
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Consider incorporating WeatherSpark's Scores into narrative Place-a-Palooza model.
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Holy crap dude you’ve really thought about the city analytics side of this
Your "Why Cities Fail" came out when I moved out to Boulder and got me started to think hard(er) about it.
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You're simply asking cities to embrace their inner spirit animal.
Throw in Chinese calendar, you have recipe for distinct urban archetypes.
Bull city values, Bear city values, Monkey city Values, Bison city values etc.
#zanyidea
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