People move to places for their best features but move out due to their worst features. How long you stay depends on how long you can tolerate the worst features, not how soon you tire of best ones (which is often ‘never’) “Fire pollution” might turn into the west coast killer.
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Provincial = kinda clueless about wider world. Insular = self-involved. A kind of regional narcissism. Cultural autarky.
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Self-absorption is different from both insularity and provinciality. Austin is neither. But it is very self-absorbed, like a lot of attention directed inward at live music scene. If you’re not into that, the city isn’t that interested in you.
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Applied to the US as a whole, the worst feature at the moment is definitely “Trump.” I bet he’s the top reason people who’re leaving voluntarily are doing so.
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Ithaca seemed cute
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Detroit (and A2) are weird because there's no reason it ought to be provincial - there's just a lot of disinvestment in information (as in so many more urgent needs, tbf) that makes it so.
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