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I’ve run this theory that the grass is no longer greener anywhere by multiple people recently and all agree. There’s no X such that moving to X feels like an unambiguous net improvement on all major fronts. It’s always sharp trade offs now. Geographic arrival fallacies are dead.
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Culture works differently when restless people who are unhappy where they are can believe in “grass is greener” effects. Life has a spatial gradient to it. A directional tendency to disaffected dislocation drifts.
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Never go full Pareto? 🤔 Maybe that was our problem before. No place can actually bear the burden of being a Mecca for too long. Revealing that actual Mecca is a mostly uninhabited desert most of the year except for a few days during hajj
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The benefit of life being non homogenous is that on any dimension you can indeed find somewhere better. The difference today seems that it's harder to find full Pareto improvement across multiple dimensions.
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Do the camino of saint james once the world permits, then. It's a nice place of life, takes about a month and a half, relatively inexpensive.
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Aren't today's people of the west still doing pilgrimages? It's just to some location to film instagram stories or go to a club. They are ticking things off "their list".
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Even now in India a major chunk of travel in INDIA is pilgrimage. Ppl go to Tirupati and Varanasi and Haridwar. The pundits in places like Haridwar still maintain the genealogy records of pilgrims and find out details of their ancestors that they never knew otherwise.