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I think the notion that people should want to leave for the coasts or for big cities is a kind of mental shorthand for the notion that people should want to experience other, different things than the ones they've experienced by living in the one place--and actually, I think *that's* true wherever you start out. If you're the child of a high-powered Manhattan stockbroker or a Brooklyn shopkeeper--and are therefore *already* in a big city on the coast and maybe with access to all sorts of cosmopolitan experiences... you should want to go get other, different experiences that act as a corrective what you've known so far. But even though I like this idea, the truth is, people are so various, there are some for whom the stress and anxiety of being in a different place would outweigh the benefits, and who can share something really wonderful with the world just based on their intimate familiarity with their one place.

... all of which is just to say, I don't think being happy in their [Midwest] place needs to reduce someone to a talented hack.

(This movie sounds really nice)