“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.” HomeMovingPlace 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
“…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?” HomeAttitudePerspectiveAttachmentPlace 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