Repeated millions of times, the decision to move out robs communities of their memories and their social relationships. It leaves them shallow rooted, ill equipped to provide their residents with sustenance during hard times.Any human relationship takes time for seasoning, for testing, for the kind of slow, casual knitting that will not break apart under the first signs of strain. John Killinger
Sociologists have discovered that longtime residents make a disproportionately large contribution to a community; they do much to define its character and create a sense of continuity.
Rapid mobility...'does not afford the kind of time - years and years of time - that are necessary to become rooted in a place, to really know the neighbors, to truly belong to the community, to celebrate the great milestones of life..., to feel, deeply and responsibly, that there is a bond between ourselves and the land, ourselves and the house, ourselves and the neighborhood, that nourishes and replenishes our being. Philip Langdon
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