
Why it’s so hard to move in America
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How Do You Know if You Have Moved?
A mobile society is like more individual, more optimistic, more tolerant and a stable society is more secure. How do you actually know that that's happening? Some one thinks we ask people to define themselves in terms of how they see the world. We can also look at those communities which are full of people who have movedMore recently. And so you can see people worrying more about their reputations in these more stable places. I think this supports a very rontrpnerial vision of the world, where your history doesn't matter nearly as much as your future.
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