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In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin's The Pleasure Project and Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on the project to find what it takes to love your geographical area. The average restless North american will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was her 6th move - from Austin, Tx, to Blacksburg, Virginia - that threatened to unhinge her. Inside the depressed aftermath of unpacking, she thought about: Aren't we supposed to put down origins at some point? How does the area we live end up being the place we want to stay? This time around she got an epiphany. Instead of hold her breath and wish this new town would be her family's perfect fit, she'd work out how to fall deeply in love with it - no matter what. How we come to feel at home inside our towns and cities is what Warnick models out to find in This Is Where You Belong. She dives in to the body of research around place attachment - the deep sense of interconnection that binds some people to our cities and increases our physical and mental well-being - then moves to towns across America to view it in action. Motivated by an evergrowing activity of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to generate likable locales. She also talks with consistent movers and loyal stayers around the united states to learn what draws highly mobile People in america to a fresh city and why is us stay. The very best ideas she imports to her used hometown of Blacksburg for a series of "Love Where You Live" experiments made to make her feel more locally connected: eating out with her friends and neighbors, shopping SMALL COMPANY Saturday, marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these attempts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the area she finally continues? What Warnick discovers will motivate you to accept your own community - and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now...is home.
