| >Honestly, I think it would be extremely difficult to assessthe state of live music in America these days compared with some past time decades ago, in a fair and unbiased way....The best you can probably do is anecdotes, and then you might as well listen to the commenters here too. Even anecdotes are suspect, You realize how wishy-washy this sounds right? "authors write bad too just trust anecdotes. But anecdotes are bad too" Do you have any sort of input here whatsoever or just want to say all data is fake? Yes, it could be a lie. But there's been enough researched literature on this that I'm inclined to agree. And yes. You can in fact track this, even if it's not easy. Statistics rarely has the blessing of a Census. That why we have centuries of survey techniques to get close to it. Dismissing thst for a few anecdotes which you also didn't trust just feels contrarian for the sake of it. > Now it seems Americans don't do that much. I'm not surprised. I knew the reasons before I even opened your article: > Slowdowns in the housing and job markets and delays in marriage and childbearing pushed their relocation rates down substantially. >low-wage jobs, after adjusting for the local cost of living, pay about the same everywhere. > the economy is now less flexible, with prosperity clustered in larger cities and with businesses and people moving less. The funniest parts are these experts baffled why this is affecting everyone and not just younger people. Almost like they forgot moving isn't a free and easy endeavor and people stick to the familiar. They didn't quite nail down that no one wants to move across the country only to be laid off in 6 months, but they are at least hitting the dartboard. You want people to be able to move? Pay them so they can live in wherever they move to. That simple. Until then, we're stuck and losing buying power and won't uproot what stability we have left for hopes of finding a bar woth love music that may or may not cease doing so in the next year or two. |