Geographic mobility has always been high in the US, but in the past few decades it's gotten insane
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Oops I lied, 2011 figure includes foreign-born, that's what you get for trusting unsourced twitter graphs :-P
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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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...then what killed real community? Putnam blames TV/internet, definitely part of it. Crap urban design & secularization, legal stuff...
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Actually, it's that most neighbors are not worth knowing and before we had no real options :)
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though people DO seem happier when they have tighter relations with their dumbass physical neighbors, maybe that's just normals?
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I think you'll also like Nostalgia for the Absolute... there's some spiritual yearning conflated with community yearning
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like how religious & political extremists are happier than moderates - it's because they have tight communities supposedly
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They are also stupider and get miserable when exposed to knowledge. You need to discount their "happiness" for fragility.

