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    1. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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      Geographic mobility has always been high in the US, but in the past few decades it's gotten insanepic.twitter.com/uoQaURfxYj

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    2. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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      Oops I lied, 2011 figure includes foreign-born, that's what you get for trusting unsourced twitter graphs :-Ppic.twitter.com/a7ziO9Z42n

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    3. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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      So if it's not interstate geographic mobility simpliciter that's causing people not to know neighbors' names, as Robert Putnam suggested...

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    4. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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      ...then what killed real community? Putnam blames TV/internet, definitely part of it. Crap urban design & secularization, legal stuff...

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Jan 2015
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      @sarahdoingthing Actually, it's that most neighbors are not worth knowing and before we had no real options :)

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Jan 2015
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          @sarahdoingthing Easy to romanticize "small town community" if you haven't experienced how crappy it actually is and wanted to escape

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        3. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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          @vgr but I want a physical community full of cool people to do rituals with :(

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        1. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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          @vgr indeed! even an unusually interesting person can't compete with a smartphone full of such people :/

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        2. Sister Sarah‏ @sarahdoingthing 14 Jan 2015
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          @vgr though people DO seem happier when they have tighter relations with their dumbass physical neighbors, maybe that's just normals?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Jan 2015
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          @sarahdoingthing Dataset is suspect. Happier compared to what? Sure if the alt is isolation, it's better. But the alt is not isolation.

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