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Globalization and increasing social connectedness in the last century has made it so most high paying jobs require relocating to another city, in the past few decades as corporate loyalty has died altogether having a successful career requires relocating several times for higher pay at a new company.
This has created social pressure for kids to move far away as it’s a sign of success to have such a job, and conversely a sign of failure to be stuck with a local job that for most people will have much lower pay.
Compounding this is the mortgage industry trying to sell everyone a 3-4br suburban McMansion, a family house is traditionally a generational investment not a consumer purchase, the mortgage industry changed that completely.
Being cut off from family and community takes a toll on your mental health - but far worse is the damage to a child’s development caused by not having a sense of community; it takes a village to raise a child, and so many children have been raised with zero community support besides parents and paid teachers that being horribly immature and emotionally maladapted have become more common than not.
Fortunately suburban McMansion culture is dying off, and the winds have shifted in favor of most high-paying jobs becoming remote work, while shitty labor jobs tend to require moving to a population center.
Hopefully we’ll once again shift to multigenerational family housing being commonplace and developing lasting local communities.
