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(0)Melody Warnick
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even when your job can be done from anywhere, the place you call home still matters—a lot.
By the old rules of work, your dream career determines where you live. If you want to make movies, move to Los Angeles. If you want to work in publishing, you must be in New York. And if you're launching a start-up, you'll only succeed in Silicon Valley.
But with the meteoric rise of remote and freelance work, more people than
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live. The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was her sixth move, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren't we supposed to put down...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment--the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being--then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to...