Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by diordiderot on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:52PM
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In the American South community is as easy as picking a church and going to your kids public school sporting events.
Are there problems, of course, like all societies. But it's easy and it works.
Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by genghisjahn on Saturday December 28, 2024 @05:26PM
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Same thing works in Philadelphia.
Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by xocnad on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:42PM
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This presupposes both an interest in religion and organized sports.
Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by Suppafly on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:48PM
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>This presupposes both an interest in religion and organized sports.
Sorta but not really. Lots of people just fake it for the community aspects.
Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by tekknik on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:05AM
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With this mindset you likely wouldn’t live in the south anyway as you’d end up miserable. Just like a southerner living in CA.
Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
by achierius on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:38AM
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At least w.r.t. the latter point, you shouldn't need to be interested in sports to be interested in your kid's sporting events. Spoiler: nobody likes t-ball, but they do like their kids enough to go to the t-ball games anyways.
But it’s more than a single generation thing. If you live for 18 years in a family that has only recently put down roots in a new place, you won’t have family around, unlikely to have as many family friends around, etc. Community will likely be sparse and colder.
You essentially get a generational social debt put onto kids, over and over. It appears that cohesion is lost, pro-social behaviour decreases, focus on less social activity increases, and so on.