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“Was it possible to pine for a place I’d been perfectly happy to leave? For a long time while I worked on my ‘love where you live’ experiments, I had thought of place attachment as an either-or proposition: either you adored your city and stayed there forever in connubial bliss, or you didn’t. Moving was a failure of commitment and love.”

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Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“…believing that your town offers opportunities for enjoyable social interactions beyond your living room is key to how much you feel attached to it, and a good way to pinpoint your own perceptions about the stuff there is to do in your town is by asking yourself, ‘What would I show off to visitors?”

Home Attitude Perspective Attachment Place Attachment

Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“Yet there was something noble in the way Gertie presided over her home town, surrounded by people to whom she’d made herself useful, like the now-grown children who once rode her school bus, or the neighbor woman she took to Walmart every other week for quilt fabric.”

Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“In his book, Who’s Your City, the demographic Richard Florida divides people into three categories: the mobile, the stuck, and the rooted. We tend to focus on the first two—the mobile, who can pick up and move to opportunity—and the stuck, who lack the resources to leave where they are…but we cannot forget about the rooted: those who have the means and opportunity to move, but choose to stay…because they’re content where they are.”

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Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“Our experience of the place where we live depends entirely on who we are, how we interact with it, and how we interpret what’s happening around us. We create our places every day by how we choose to view them…we must forcefully insist on seeing a place’s charms.”

Home Attitude Perspective Experience

Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“What could I do to feel happier living here? … 1. Walk more. 2. Buy local. 3. Get to know my neighbors. 4. Do fun stuff. 5. Explore nature. 6. Volunteer. 7. Eat local. 8. Become more political. 9. Create something new. 10. Stay loyal through hard times.”

Book:This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live