Codie Sanchez noticed most successful people she knows left their hometowns. She cites her father and friends Rob and Nick Huber as examples, and wonders if geographic mobility is actually linked to success or just a pattern in her nomadic social circle.
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It's really hard to find someone who didn't leave their hometown but was successful. My father, who's successful, he left for years and then he came back to his hometown for decades. My friend Rob, he left his hometown of Houston, went to la, then went back. My friend Nick Huber, he lived in a small town in Indianapolis, but then he went to school at Cornell. Then he worked some other places and he went to a smaller town, but he didn't stay in one. The moral of the story, we literally couldn't find humans who didn't come from either generational wealth and thus could stay locally and build on it, or were in like India who started something. A small town grew like crazy. And that probably just due to massive demographic shifts and a huge population explosion paired with very few services located locally. Now this is totally possible to just be a component of bias, because we all left and now we know a lot of people who are nomadic. But I think it's worth asking yourself a question. If the data by and large says that in order to be successful, you need to leave at some point, even if you come back, why fight the trend?
