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In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin's megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveThe average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren't we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family's perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in love with it-no matter what.     How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment-the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being-then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade.      Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community-and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now . . . is home.From the Hardcover edition.

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The only expectation one can have when returning to visit a childhood home is to be deeply moved in the most unexpected ways. For millions of Americans each year, that journey conjures many emotions, offering a psychological exploration unlike any other. This book describes the experiences of adults who visit a childhood home and the psychology behind their visits. Seeing the buildings, schools, parks and playgrounds from their past helps to establish the psychological and emotional link between the child in the old photographs and the person they are today.

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Geographical perception. --- Place attachment. --- Environmental psychology. --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnopsychology. --- Communication in folklore. --- Place-based education.

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"Whatever the ideological slant of our information feeds, we may nowadays share a sense that we are binge-watching the apocalypse. Facing so much uncertainty, we need a language for thinking about the unknown not simply as a threat, but also as a space of fertile possibility. Rather than approaching the subject as an abstract conceit, George Prochnik has chosen to reflect on his themes through the lens of a personal narrative: an account of his own family's decision to leave the United States. I Dream With Open Eyes begins with a reflection on Prochnik's ancestral past in the United States and the arrival of his mother's family, who were Pilgrims, in the New World. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, a parallel pilgrimage is unfolding, as Prochnik and his family make the decision to uproot their lives in New York. They left behind their neighborhood, their community, their friends and family, to return to England from which Prochnik's family had come generations before. A journey of reckoning and renewal follows, but what ensues is by no means a traditional memoir-rather, it is an examination of an individual imagination. This narrative nonfiction is told in three parts: the interplay between the personal and political in the decision to emigrate; a period of geographical flux, in which the work of Elizabeth Bishop becomes lode star; and, finally, the implications of resettlement, as seen through a survey of revolutionary gestures that have shaped the course of history. A deep critique of this current moment, Prochnik takes the words of nineteenth-century poet Heinrich Heine, "I dream with open eyes, and my eyes see" to ask how we might use art and literature as tools for refraction, expanding our vision for the future while simultaneously taking stock of present realities"--

Americans --- Place (Philosophy) --- Place attachment. --- Essayists --- Literary historians --- Immigrants --- Prochnik, George. --- Prochnik, George --- Homes and haunts. --- United States --- Social conditions

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In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a palpable concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away, taking their wealth with them. Many assume that the importance of location to a person's success is at an all-time low. Cristobal Young, however, makes the surprising argument that location is very important to the world's richest people. Frequently, he says, place has a great deal to do with how they make their millions. In The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight, Young examines a trove of data on millionaires and billionaires—confidential tax returns, Forbes lists, and census records—and distills down surprising insights. While economic elites have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. For the rich, ongoing economic potential is tied to the place where they become successful—often where they are powerful insiders—and that success ultimately diminishes both the incentive and desire to migrate. This important book debunks a powerful idea that has driven fiscal policy for years, and in doing so it clears the way for a new era. Millionaire taxes, Young argues, could give states the funds to pay for infrastructure, education, and other social programs to attract a group of people who are much more mobile—the younger generation.

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