From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 00:46:33 MDT
James Rogers wrote:
> I have a theory as to why there is a bias that is slowly causing
> movement from rural areas to super-metro areas despite the fact that the
> cost of living increases as one moves through the spectrum. I've lived
> across the spectrum and moved between them, which has given me a pretty
> good idea of how it happens.
>
> The short answer is that women drive this behavior in the general
> population. I've regularly observed this in many different places and
> under many different environments. Men are fairly agnostic about
> location and are sensitive to cost of living, without a strong bias
> toward living in the city. Most women prefer the city, the bigger the
> better, and don't seem to be too sensitive to the fact that it costs
> more (perhaps because in the majority of cases, they are not bearing the
> primary financial burden of it). The pattern I have seen over and over
> is that for most couples, there is an equilibrium between the man's
> price sensitivity and the woman's desire to live in ever bigger/denser
> cities.
Just stop. This is more of the same old sexist tripe. I have
had ENOUGH.
- samantha
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