Welcome to The Sentinel - a newsletter on mind and craft on Substack, my new neighborhood on the internet. For my first post, I talk about moving to a new neighborhood and making a fresh start. Do subscribe.
This post resonates with me on so many levels! Loved the inclusion of the Pew research survey data. I used to think that I am being 'forced' to move so far away from home to chase educational/economic opportunities, mostly due to the limited economic resources we had, and that I would have stayed close to home if my family had been wealthy! If that Pew study stratified data by 'wealth' (as opposed to 'income' which. might necessitate 'moving'), I wonder if the distribution would skew right as 'wealth' increased!
Thank you, Raju. Income and education are highly correlated with wealth which makes disentangling the effects harder, but I would expect wealth to inversely correlate with emigration. In fact, ssa.gov reports that
"Immigrants have significantly lower levels of wealth than natives at the mean and throughout the distribution. The median comprehensive wealth of married immigrants, for example, ranges from 62 percent to 70 percent that of their native counterparts, depending on the age bracket." (See Table 1).
My first job was my (bittersweet) experience living in Tiruvottiyur, hearing about North Madras brought back some memories for me too. Glad to find your substack, and in someways I am glad we seem to be making a full circle back to blogging. Hopefully I can get motivated to start as well.
This post resonates with me on so many levels! Loved the inclusion of the Pew research survey data. I used to think that I am being 'forced' to move so far away from home to chase educational/economic opportunities, mostly due to the limited economic resources we had, and that I would have stayed close to home if my family had been wealthy! If that Pew study stratified data by 'wealth' (as opposed to 'income' which. might necessitate 'moving'), I wonder if the distribution would skew right as 'wealth' increased!
Thank you, Raju. Income and education are highly correlated with wealth which makes disentangling the effects harder, but I would expect wealth to inversely correlate with emigration. In fact, ssa.gov reports that
"Immigrants have significantly lower levels of wealth than natives at the mean and throughout the distribution. The median comprehensive wealth of married immigrants, for example, ranges from 62 percent to 70 percent that of their native counterparts, depending on the age bracket." (See Table 1).
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v79n4/v79n4p25.html
My first job was my (bittersweet) experience living in Tiruvottiyur, hearing about North Madras brought back some memories for me too. Glad to find your substack, and in someways I am glad we seem to be making a full circle back to blogging. Hopefully I can get motivated to start as well.