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Has anyone Covid-relocated from a largish coastal metro (SF, LA, Portland, Seattle, NY, Boston, DC) to a smaller city anywhere that’s *not* Austin or Miami? The Schelling point cities are weirdly dominant in migration patterns.
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Hypothesis: “where to move to?” is not an Excel-complete problem So if you start a spreadsheet to solve it, you’ll get frustrated in a few hours and just decide to move to Austin because 2 of your friends did. The social graph is a dominant variable in mobility decisions
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You may think you’re solving for weather, taxes etc., but you’re solving for “how many people will I already know when I land there?”
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I’ve never moved for friends/community ever though. I’m convinced the formula is a wishful dream. Hell is other people etc.
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I’m amused by how this idea keeps cropping up. I’ve concluded it’s unworkable because these communities don’t actually exist as the clean sets people imagine. They’re leaky fuzzy small world groupings which lack sufficient consensus. You can get to n=10 at most without going cult twitter.com/leepnet/status…