Re:Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of ...
by mikrl on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:54PM
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I’ll take baffling as a compliment.
The opioid thing is relevant because lots of people I grew up with in my home city fucked up their lives, and I’d have done the same had I stayed because social networks, living in poverty, decay and hopelessness etc.
Leaving broke me out of that and gave me access to better social capital which was (perhaps an exaggeration) a difference between life and death.
YMMV but if you’ve grown up in a decaying urban area, you know what I’m talking about.
The opioid thing is relevant because lots of people I grew up with in my home city fucked up their lives, and I’d have done the same had I stayed because social networks, living in poverty, decay and hopelessness etc.
Leaving broke me out of that and gave me access to better social capital which was (perhaps an exaggeration) a difference between life and death.
YMMV but if you’ve grown up in a decaying urban area, you know what I’m talking about.