sospan, it seems we may think along similar lines relative to possible economic outcomes that we seem to have been heading toward for some time, and that Brexit would seem to have complicated matters to some degree in many areas of life, add Covid and climate change to the mix and there would seem to be challenges a plenty ahead..?
City folk moving to the countryside.....It seems animals, humans included, have been migrating since the beginning of time in search of advantage, even some insects make amazing journeys to find that all important advantage, just as our forefathers abandoned the countryside to live in cities for so many reasons of imagined or real advantage. My guess is that there should be no real surprise that we divide into tribes to enhance our personal advantage, and ultimately the advantage of our tribe..? Obvious examples of such behaviour has existed for millennia... ?
Migration for advantage as found in cities can create ghettos, or communities within communities if you prefer, be they of a different culture, skin colour, financial standing, or whatever other lines of division one might seek to create, there are way too many variations to list, but all finding themselves in whatever location as the result of their personal instinct or that of their forebears to find a better life, be it pigeon holed in a multi story city flat, or just a bit further out of town in the leafy suburbs or a tad further out in a quaint little village..or even in another different country from which your income is or has been derived.
As for the recent rush to the countryside by those who find they can now work from home as the result of technological advance... No surprises there then as they are but the tip of the iceberg given the huge increase in human migration in more recent times since man became more easily mobile, be it those Brits who were spat out of the workplace with enhanced pensions along with those who sold their former city council dwelling and are now living in Spain, or the mud hut dwellers who many years ago found access to to information on the Western world when Mr Murdoch beamed the "Dallas" lifestyle into their towns then villages and now their phones, any surprises that they might naturally think.. I want some of THAT......?
Yup the spread of information technology along with tribal instincts and search for advantage creating death and destruction as ever it does amongst humans, would seem to have increased the momentum relative to population shifts in all directions, the least of which seems likely to be city folk moving to the countryside seeking...err... a better quality of life, or in more base terms... advantage..?
Seems on a Bojo has taken steps to reduce the powers of the NIMBY tribe in England (?)..who are bound to be upset with the process of change..?
I suspect there is much more to come in this story of human nature, and it`s very real effect on evolutionary processes...?
