Love of place
I have a couple of friends who I believe have an obstinate view about the supposed superiority of their chosen place to live. I was just thinking about this as I made my move back to the Midwest from living in the Southwest for 22+ years. This is problematic because it is hard to have pleasant enough conversations without them having to justify the superiority of their choice (because places and land exist side by side with other places and land without argument), as situated in their lives. And then I remember an old New Yorker cartoon portraying a bigot's view of Manhattan and the outer boroughs (I also lived in Brooklyn, once upon a time), and figure it is the same thing--some people cannot fathom the value of places and customs that are foreign to them or that they are scared of, or have little honest interest in. Some have bad feelings attached to places where they lost jobs, were treated badly, or places they had moved to that 'just were not home.' And I cannot re...
