[rauljordan2020]

I’m from latin america. The world is a vast, beautiful place with stunning, clean cities full of opportunity and serendipity. Either I can explore the world and live in these places, or go back to my dangerous, dirty city to spend the rest of my life there because family lives there. Sometimes it isn’t worth the tradeoff

[ustad]

“Though the roads may wind far and wide, And cities gleam with promises bright, The heart will always turn to the soil, Where the roots of our ancestors lie. No matter how distant the dream may be, Home will call, and there we shall be.”

– Mariana Ruiz del Valle

[lioeters]

We need a poet who sings about having a "dangerous, dirty city" to call home, and the yearning of the heart is to escape to somewhere better and never returning.

[jimbokun]

Not hard to find. Most modern artists value leaving home and tradition in pursuit of the novel and transgressive.

[lioeters]

That's true. It's probably one of the main themes of the modern era, in the arts and in life, the freedom to pursue individualism and novelty, and break with religion and tradition.

This meaning of "leaving home" as a cultural trend, I see it as part of the modern historical period that has passed its peak. We're living in the natural and logical result, and searching for a way back home.

> The modern era is closely associated with the development of individualism, capitalism, urbanization, and a belief in the positive possibilities of technological and political progress.

> It has been a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology. It has also been an Age of Discovery and globalization. During this time, the European powers and later their colonies, strengthened its political, economic, and cultural colonization of the rest of the world. It also created a new modern lifestyle and has permanently changed the way people around the world live.

> In the 19th and early 20th century, modernist art, politics, science, and culture have come to dominate not only Western Europe and North America, but almost every area on the globe, including movements thought of as opposed to the western world and globalization.

> The brutal wars and other conflicts of this era, many of which come from the effects of rapid change, and the connected loss of strength of traditional religious and ethical norms, have led to many reactions against modern development.

[kridsdale1]

Belle from Beauty and the Beast

[bowsamic]

It just doesn’t though. That is a feeling specific to her and a few others. It’s not universal at all

[alonsonic]

Family and friends have a bigger impact on ell being than you think. A lot of people in "dirty cities" are shown to live a happier and more fulfilling life with less when they have a strong community they're part of.

[jimbokun]

The trouble is those clean cities full of opportunity devolve into dangerous dirty cities when the high trust bonds of community break down.

[rauljordan2020]

Tokyo and Singapore do not. My whole country, and family, struggle with corruption, poverty, third-world-country crime and infrastructure, extortion, gang violence, and I’m supposed to want to go back and live there and raise my kids there? Nah, there are far better places to be despite being far from family.

[imbnwa]

In the case of America, violent crime is at a 50 year low. New York City, for example, was far more dangerous back when La Cosa Nostra was calling the shots than it is today.

[jimbokun]

Wasn’t the 50 year low just before Covid?

[imbnwa]

2022, though 2019 was marginally lower