provincially global
The more I speak to the London international population (that is to say practically every londoner) the more I realize that they usually come from provincial towns / villages in their country and sidestepped their capital city for London (and some other global cities). Conversely, it is much less common to find people from major cities (Rome, Madrid, Paris, Berlin...) coming to London unless they've got high powered jobs they couldn't get in their cities -essentially in the advanced-production service firms.
I haven't quite figured out how to interpret and illustrate this but it definitely is interesting and worth some investigation. But I doubt I would be wrong to argue that apart from the alleged managerial elite, migration to global cities originate in provincial cities. It is a theory of extremes : reject where you came from by moving to the whole opposite. Or is it just that other major cities have enough to keep their inhabitants happy.
posted by Jeremie Feinblatt @ 11:21 AM
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i think that you need to look at the local - it is about communities gathering within the city, and therefore your vision has been blurred!
Ironically these footloose professionals have similar characteristics to ethnic minorities - they need friends with similar beliefs – this doesn’t explain your ‘small town boy moving to big city theory’. I personally don't think there are more people from small provincial cities i just think that they congregate together and therefore have more presence and are more obvious.
Is that why you're a small town boy who's moved to London ??? Got ya there
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