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Hollywood created stereotype that people who don’t move out from their city are losers. Why?


Like what it wrong with living in your small beautiful peaceful and safe city? In Hollywood universe you only have to move to big giant city to be considered not loser and successful. And then characters keep and keep addressing other characters and give them side eye that they didnt move and will live there for eternity. Like its something shameful.

Like they have to finish school, pack their tings and move to New York, rent expensive flat then work 2 jobs trying to pay rent, riding filth metro, walking dangerous streets full of criminals. Then when person gets married few years later they have to move to suburbia now. Because its dangerous to children in big cities. This is so stupid.

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Its in countless movies and here we are again. When they fight and guy tells her (to insult) he will go to Prinston and then will come to see his parents time in time - she will still be living there. Like its something super embarrassed. And keep in mind that this is rich tourist location that is so prestige that she could not even pay property taxes. Because everyone wants to move to that sea resort. And she was lucky enough to inherit house. But he basically shamed her to sell house and drive into unknown. Apparently some big filthy city. Where she would now have to rent small one room apartment and work hard job. Her money would run out quickly and she would have to go to rent from rent. While she was living in her own pretty house in good and safe small tourist resort.

I actually wish that woke crowd would do something good for once and call out Hollywood for constantly shaming people who live in small cities like they are losers and need to move out to be considered "not losers".

And her selling house to her friends for smaller price she could get from others is just stupid. She could have just rent that house and receive income every month. Then move back if she will be tired from big city.

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Have you seen Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)?

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Yes. Why?

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If I remember correctly, Sonic (2020) had the opposite message; that everything you need is in your small town home, and there's no need to run off to the big city.

Regardless, I do think you have a valid observation in that many films glorify moving to the big city, and people who don't are often portrayed as losers. However, I'm not sure this trend started with film. I can't remember any specific titles off-hand, but there were novels and short stories written in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, before film and television were around, that covered similar themes about leaving for the big city.

I'm just speculating, but I think this might have a lot to do with the writers of these works. Many writers did indeed move away from their small-town homes to pursue their dreams of making it big as a writer in the big city. Their life experiences will surely bias their writing in favor of those who move away, and may even, as you pointed out in your opening comment, look down on those who stay behind.

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But is it like that in USA? Or its just a Hollywood myth? Do people really considered losers for not moving out?

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The USA is a huge country, and its people, as individuals, are very different.

In the town where I grew up, most people viewed those who wanted to move away as losers. I have also lived in other parts of the country where the general sentiment was that you should stay in the town where you were born, close to your friends and family. However, there are definitely people who think that those who never move away from their hometowns are losers. But, based on my experience, I don't think that's what most people believe.

You have to remember though that the USA is a very individualistic culture, much more so than even our comparable Western countries in Europe. In Europe, it is still common for adults to live at home, or close to home, so cultural perceptions certainly play into this.

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A modern day concentration camp!

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This is the future of America!

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exactly........ her selling the house was bullshit. made no sense.

and move to California, yeah, she will fit in great there! 😒

thought the movie was good, but that part was idiotic.

nothing wrong with her town...... everything wrong with California, especially for a person like Maddie.

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agree 100%

Guess the hollywood pedos just love young girls and boys coming to the big city with no place to go...... they are easy to take advantage off.

I was semi joking when i wrote it.... but now i see it could very well be true!
pretty fucking scary.

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I definitely think there's an element of breaking down the populations roots so they can move forward with their 1984 style agenda with everyone as worker drones with no personality or free will.

'They' hate the small town folk with a passion because they can't control them the same as they can more mainstream people, that's why the South is always portrayed as backwards when the reality is they are very close knit capable people with guns who will fight to the death if you try and fuck with them

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agree 100%

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