No way! My community is here. All my friends that matter. Everything I do is here. My political capital is all here. People know me here. I can get things done here. I know where to get my car fixed and house fixed and my body fixed. I can pull strings here.
But probably most importantly, my spiritual community is here, and it is a unique community that has no counterpart and nothing even close to it anywhere else in the world.
I think people who move often way underestimate the value of the social capital they have. Now granted, if you are younger, you may have less social capital, and so you wouldn’t be giving up as much. But in my case, it would be enormous what I would give up, and it would severely diminish my quality of life if I moved elsewhere, unless I could find a way to become involved in my new community very quickly.
I would have go all out when I got there, and get involved in everything. I don’t know if I could find musicians I could hang with because the style of music I do is unusual. And the dance I do can’t be done anywhere else. I would have start a new group myself. That would be difficult and it is unlikely that I would succeed.
Still, sometimes I think about moving somewhere else. But usually it’s just for a while. Of if life circumstances were to change, then I might want to move. My job is pretty unique, too. I’m sure I could get another one, but it’s hard to imagine getting one this easy.