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Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’t.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:48 am
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:48 am
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A recent op-ed in the New York Times, titled “Move to your dying hometown,” told the story of a writer moving from Portland, Oregon, back to a small town of 14,000 people in central Minnesota where her grandmother was from. The writer, Michele Anderson, who is a white cis woman, argues that becoming a “homecomer” is part of a sustainable lifestyle that rejects the culture of chasing empty status and upward mobility of cities. “My work felt trivial and temporary,” Anderson writes about her career in Portland.
This article is one example of a larger narrative that fetishizes return as a way to revive America’s “dwindling” rural communities. In March of 2017, JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, wrote a similar op-ed extolling the virtues of moving back to Middle America. Like Anderson, Vance implies that his decision isn’t just good for him, but good for America. “Those of us who are lucky enough to choose where we live would do well to ask ourselves, as part of that calculation, whether the choices we make for ourselves are necessarily the best for our home communities — and for the country,” writes Vance. Living in the heart of America, they both argue, is the kind of noble choice that could bridge our nation’s deep divides.
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While urban counties are growing at the national rate of 13 percent, half of America’s rural counties now have fewer residents now than they did in 2000.
But Paul, they're ain't no jobs
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This post was edited on 4/16/19 at 11:49 am
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:50 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I am not sure I can ever stomach moving back to Baton Rouge from Nashville.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:51 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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white cis woman,
Quit reading right here
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:51 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I think this writer is basically advocating that super liberal people in major cities that are transplants should move back to their rural home towns and convert people to liberalism.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:52 am to East Coast Band
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white cis woman,
Quit reading right here
Does this mean she's got cystic fibrosis or something?
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:52 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Bawcomville will always be home.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:53 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I'm glad they mentioned she's a white cis woman. I was wondering about that because its so important to this story.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:53 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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cis
What does this mean?
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:54 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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“Those of us who are lucky enough to choose where we live would do well to ask ourselves, as part of that calculation, whether the choices we make for ourselves are necessarily the best for our home communities — and for the country,
IDGAF about communities or the country in regards to my home, I care about what's best for ME and my family. I'm not gonna move back to a podunk town with poor schools and not shite to do simply because I was birthed there.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:55 am to GreatLakesTiger24
My hometown isn't dying. Just the opposite. Unfortunately this makes it entirely too attractive to the hipster locust swarm.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:56 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Businesses congregate in places where it's convenient for their customers and employees to reach them. Those are called cities.
If you went to college, as most of us are encouraged to, you probably won't find the right opportunity in a small town, and odds are smaller that the small town is your home town.
And my home town isn't dying. It turned into a magnet for strip malls, fast food joints, and car dealerships. It's not the same town.
If you went to college, as most of us are encouraged to, you probably won't find the right opportunity in a small town, and odds are smaller that the small town is your home town.
And my home town isn't dying. It turned into a magnet for strip malls, fast food joints, and car dealerships. It's not the same town.
This post was edited on 4/16/19 at 11:58 am
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:56 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Maybe if I was from some idealic farm town in Minnesota. Some of us are from places with shitty school systems and high violent crime rates. I think I’ll spare my children that, but thanks.
This post was edited on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:56 am to TheCaterpillar
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think this writer is basically advocating that super liberal people in major cities that are transplants should move back to their rural home towns and convert people to liberalism.
So, the CA to TX model
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:56 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Sounds like some stupid millennial who was $250k in student loan debt had a grandma die and the family gave her the old family home. She'll last as long as she has to make the family happy that she tried, then sell it and move back to Portland. She will survive, at most, 2 MN winters.
This post was edited on 4/16/19 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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JD Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy
Was a good book.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I’m from Opelousas and now live in NYC. Going to break the news to my wife tonight that it is time to pack up and move back home.
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am to PrimetimeDaBoss
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What does this mean?
It's a latin word that means "on this side of". It's the antonym of trans which is a latin word that means "across".
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Michele Anderson, who is a white cis woman
Hopefully she didn't grow up in my hometown because I don't think she would fare well in a 99% white town filled with farmers and factory workers
Posted on 4/16/19 at 11:57 am to LSUFanHouston
The people from California moving to Texas are not liberals
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