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A recent research presented in the article above indicates that , geographically speaking. It is curious how most people are (randomly?) born somewhere and they tend to look for the opportunities to make a living on that place, do not go too far or think that they actually enjoy the freedom of deciding to go to anywhere else in the world unless they have serious pressing motivation (hunger, crime,...).

Reading this, I could not help but think that people also "don't move" in monetary terms. They are born in a certain region and they do not think that their money might very well better in some other form (e.g. bitcoin).

I think this is very well explained with emotional attachment with the place where we take birth. There is thing called as safe-box or may be comfort zone! Everyone right from the birth starts to know the surroundings, neighbours, the area, even the shop at corner and all these things start to get emotionally attached with everyone.

Many of us even go here and there for educational purposes, take our degrees and most of the time wanna Go-Home and get settled. May be that’s kinda emotion which attracts everyone back to their hometown.

Our most of the things like house, area, colonisation makes more safer than the new area and new peeps. Most of the things are already settled so why you start from the scratch. That’s what most of them think.

Obviously there could be many more theories out their but this could be one of the reason for concentrated colonisation.

In short, people find a HOME. Home is where the heart is. Family members stay close together and are not open to moving away from thier family because we look after each other. Latins and Asians I believe have this culture. A familiar place where everybody knows everyone is what we are used to.

Starting from scratch are from new families traveling to find greener pastures but eventually, if they don't come back, they import someone from their hometown with them. It could be a sister, grandparents or so.

I don't think this is very correct because people have been moving from beginning of the world existence. From the bible story, the part of the Israelites moved to Egypt either for safety or what we call greener pastures until a time that they moved back to Israel.

Also the slave trade stories were movement for expansion,  expidition and other purposes that were either positive or negative outcome but led to human integration and culture studies. Still today humans are moving far from country home to other places either for education, greener pastures, sporting activities. Yes for soccer we know people move to other countries, get signed up to continent far from theirs, Messi for example is from Argentina and has been in Spain with Barcelona for years and now in France with PSG. Christiano Ronaldo too
Dr Okonjo-Iweala is from Nigeria but has lived outside Nigeria for most of her life and leading the World Trade Organisation as director, moreso raising her children outside Nigeria and so many others just to mention few but known cases and as people move, they inter marry and naturalize there. So people move very well IMO.


Regarding monetary movement, people are also leaving the total commitment to traditional financial system and traditional economy. The investment in bitcoin is growing and can't be compared to 2017 at least. The economic has gone digital likewise the thinking and thought structure of the government and that is why because they can not beat them, they have joined the modern structure with CBDC

First of all, I have seen people travelling out of my country to settle in another country, although home will always be home but this doesn't change the fact that some left forever. What I noticed is that some other people want to experience another region but no money to give such opportunity but what I know is that people have been moving from one region to the other since the evolution of people that science researched to have started from Eastern/Southern part of Africa.

About this, ignorance can cause it. Some people do not know the value of bitcoin, all just hearing about how the price is fluctuating and never think of investing. Some people just think in other form of investment and not that they are wrong, but bitcoin had been the most successful asset in the past of one decade ago, so going for it would have been better. I still noticed that people always know that the value of money is not in fiat but in what you use it to do to bring more money, and in the process people are having assets to earn more money, or investing to earn more.

Emotional attachment and cultural and sociological differences are the things preventing people from doing any more mass migrations. Cultural differences are maybe the strongest factor in all of them, and one that can not be bypassed so easily because the problem lays on both sides. Cultural differences in a global age are getting more and more accentuated and therefore harder for others to adapt to them.

Well, I certainly am not one of them. I'd reckon 'wanting' to move is influenced by what you grew up in if there were opportunities or not for the path you chose. It's highly dependent since not all places have the opportunities for you, sometimes you have to move far just to get that lucky chance, unlike others who has it pretty much served to them in a platter.

Well isn't it because the mindset of innovating something is absent from them? Not that I'm saying that people aren't innovative, just that they tend to put that tendency of theirs towards stuff that they have passion about, so really, it's no wonder why most don't really bother in trying to appeal as to what medium their money is in. In the end, isn't it still money that they'd use? Not to mention that those innovative mindsets are also rare in itself imo, or at the very least, those that can be let out and be known to others anyway.  

Home is where the heart is, that's absolutely correct.
Our culture is always family first, but in terms of finding a way to survive financially, my country men slowly adapt on a character trait that sacrifice his presence for his family and travel abroad to have a more sustainable income.
But still majority of us here doesn't like to move from a place where we were born.

One thing noticeable in our culture is that we tend to move to other country to find good income salary, but foreigners like Westerner and Chinese people come to our country to build a business. This is something most people in my country doesn't realize and have overlooked.

Some people are very much okay in their comfort zone, change is not something they welcome into their lives hence they are bound to be in the same position for a better part of their lives if not all of their lives. This very reason of not wanting to move or change has hindered many from being part of this space, they are comfortable with what they are familiar with, they don't want to try something new, it is possible some people may never try this as long as they live mostly out of ignorance.

Moving to another country or place is hard especially if you are in a country where you follow traditions like you have to be close with your family. Every nation has different tradition, but in our country, I would prefer to stay close to my family even if there's plenty of opportunity in other countries or in big cities which I could easily achieve my goal to be financially free.

What I do is I "stay", and figure out how to fulfill my dreams living in the place where I was born and call a home, and that start with knowing crypto which is one of the reasons that I believe I would be able to achieved my dream soon.

Most people don't move because they have a life in their own country (family, friends, language, familiarity of everything). But for many people moving is also very hard because it requires visas, and visas require lots of documents, good official reasons of moving, proof of financial stability etc. As for currencies, I think it's not the same. In my country, the USD is valued more than our local fiat, and people tend to save money in USD or EUR rather than our fiat, although they intend to live in our country rather than elsewhere. As for cryptos, they're newer and thus considered a more risky choice, but they are fairly popular in my country. Not as money, though, but more as a form of investment.

The majority of the people hate taking risk and leaving their comfort zone.
There's also a big problem with the cost of living in countries,that have higher standard of living.
The real estate prices and the rent are also very high in such countries.
I wouldn't leave my home and my country,unless I'm really desperate.Desperation is the biggest motivator for most people.My life kinda sucks(not financially,but socially),but I'm not that desperate,so I'm not ready for radical decisions,like moving to another town or another country.

There are categories of people, those who like to explore and adventure to new places to start afresh, while a category that don't share same resolve about moving around. However i feel a move is usually prompted by something say, search for better opportunities, education, crisis etc and people do not just move from places of their birth without good reason.

I am comfortable working in my country without having to go to another country just to make money and get a better job. I think it's okay when we feel comfortable working somewhere if the job also makes enough money to meet our needs, but it still will probably not last when the payoff isn't commensurate with my work.

Many people in my country decide to migrate to other countries to become workers because they cannot find decent work in their own country. Currency value might be something they are considering trying their luck in other countries and one of their destination so far is Malaysia. It doesn't really make sense to step out of our comfort zone when we are earning more than enough salary each month, but it will definitely try to move on to new experience when we are no longer making enough money.

Basically, humans prefer to be in their comfort zone. so this is why they don't want to change. even so they don't hate change, because it's also a part of them. being born, growing up, and dying in the same place is perfectly normal. rather than trying something risky, they better accept what they already know. this also applies to everything. such as the general public views Bitcoin and crypto, or the system transition to digitalization, or changes in the environment to be more modern. all because humans worry too much about new things.

I think that is because a comfortable zone that they feel since they are young and they feel that they like to stay in their environment without thinking that if they try to search for another opportunity, they can live better than in their old place. The comfortable zone really takes a big part in their lives so that is why they do not want to move to a new place, new environment because they need to adapt to the current situations that can make them feel comfortable.

Maybe that is why people do not want to try something new (e.g. bitcoin) and still prefer traditional (e.g. fiat). They can not see that if they can use bitcoin, they will have the opportunity to have a new source of income that can give them a way to make money.

While some people really moved out to their home or country is not all about been comfortable at all, some people locomotion is base on acquiring new experience from another geographical zone or environment that can equally make he or her own people to live comfortably, so everything landed on opportunity because some people preferred unique things to be adopted.

see some people don't have the objectives of diversification of income, it's people that have such perception of diversification of income that will think of enrolling their money into bitcoin in order of multiplication or investment that will yield another. So that is the reason i emphasised on not be stagnant in a particular domain of region, because it's obvious that environment determine the mentalities of people dwelling there.

Staying in your comfort zone will take you no where,this hinders oneself from realising his or her true potentials.
Like they do say,Aim for the stars you might hit the moon,and nothing is just too big/impossible to achieve,even the word say's "I'm Possible".

Take that risk,it's better to fail and try, rather than not to give a single shot at this.
Take that positive step forward someone out there.

Well I agree, and it is felt by me personally who can't be far from where I live and where I was born. Traveling to other countries is still a fear because maybe we are not ready for different conditions, unfamiliar situations and are not used to the many climate changes in a region. Of course, the language barrier is also the reason for the lack of value in the language education being studied. So that until now I have not been able to leave the place where I was born. Emotional attachments that do not want to leave our parents, force us to look for jobs that we can achieve as much as we can.

With everything I could read in previous posts, I would add that there is one very important thing to consider when it comes to human migration, and that is the language barrier. If someone moves from Bulgaria to Germany or France they will have to learn their language if they want to find a serious job and live there, while on the other hand someone who lives in the US and wants to move from New York to San Francisco, or maybe the UK already has the advantage that he does not have to learn the language.

Yet I think a lot of people are moving in search of a better life in Europe, because the fact is that millions of people from Eastern Europe have moved to the West in the last 10 years, with the addition of 2+ million of those who have come from outside the EU.

The example of Romania perhaps best shows how large the emigration from the Eastern EU is.

Its because that's where their loved ones are. In our family, we take care of each other and dont leave anyone behind. Why go to other places when you can have a decent job and income in your hometown? Lets say there's an offer of additional 100$ monthly but you can't be with your loved ones once in a while, then its a no for me. However, thanks to cryptocurrency market I am starting to turn the tables as I could invest easily in it unlike any before. Lots of opportunities are out there that you can access without leaving your home.

Whether it's true or not, what I know is that the customs of people in each area are often associated with hereditary things that the area I live in is a community that is difficult to be away from their families. Although by far they are the strongest, only 1 to 2 years. Apart from all that, the strong customs made us look for livelihoods from the nearest environment that can still be accessed manually. So I beg you to understand.
Sometimes considering the modern era, changing this mindset or habit has been in my mind for a long time, trying to migrate to areas that have the potential to earn above-average salaries. But this attachment seems to be difficult to let go.

It's absolutely correct that home is where our heart is. However, not getting out of my comfort zone would make me feel complacent and always dependent on my parents. I was independent for most of 2019 where I lived in the country's capital region away from my home city (a 1+ hour plane ride) and I rented myself a condo unit. I did survived to prove that I can live on my own and even traveled few times abroad. But since the pandemic began, I came back home because of the extreme restrictions in the capital region and until now I didn't come back despite the cases are going down and restrictions are slowly loosened.

Well for me I was born in India but for better education and safer environment I moved to Ukraine. The education was cheaper and it's safer for women as well. Therefore for me the motivation was : Education

Other than that my boyfriend lived in Indonesia for 13 years before he moved with his mother in the UK for better healthcare, education and overall quality of life.

My brother ( cousin ) was a doctor in India but decided to have a nice house and family in Australia since the job opportunities were better and the people were more valued professionally.

Therefore I do think that people do move but it's always dependent on their motivation plus opportunities as well, it's not as easy to pin point.

What happens is that at least when it comes to bitcoin, in order for the average person to adopt it they will have to accept the fiat system they have been using for so long and that was given to them as the only option was in fact a system that was cheating on them, it may seem that such a realization may make it easier for anyone to drop something and then just move on to the better option, but in fact it makes it harder because the first reaction people tend to have is to deny the truth in front of them and go through something similar to the five stages of grief.

In an economic standpoint, it's hard to constantly move because not everyone is as privileged or as rich as those in the 1%. Not to mention that we wouldn't be in this situation if some legislations placed on our states have been truly aimed at helping us people because, it's almost 70 years since the most devastating war, pretty sure that with a good civic leaders and state laws passed, countries could've easily recovered and even grow.

Emotional attachment is certainly one thing, however, I'd also like to add the psychological factor. I've seen it in myself too, I'm struggling to make decisions that will affect my life (such as workplace, moving out, finding new opportunities), anything that has to do with breaking a habit is tough, and location is definitely one of those.

On the other hand, we could also consider material assets, such as housing, which passes from the family to children. My family also owns a house which is going to be passed to me, having your own roof is certainly contributing to not moving out of your comfort zone.

I think the main reason why people do this is the comfort zone, obviously, your region or place where you were born provides you a greater level of the comfort zone because you are living around people you know since your birth, moreover moving out is a big expense too, unless you have a fixed income stream somewhere else you will find it difficult to survive anywhere else as you will have numerous expenses in this new place.

Talking about money also, people are generally rigid with their beliefs and it's really very difficult to change anyone's belief as people are really averted to change this is the reason why this happens.

I think each people will have their reason, like me who have reason which not Op mention, i can't leave my mother because only her who i have in this world. Although maybe i can't make new experience or maybe missed an opportunity which i can get in other tow, but i have this responsibility to be on my mother side, and for income i already enough from main salary and doing something online.

I personally dont think that both of these statements are relevant to each another but I think people 'move' their money though. Back then people only hold cash and penny, then everyone started to flock to precious metals such as gold / silver. Nowadays people tend to 'save' their money in form of stocks so yeah people do 'move' their money

Its abit early to expect most people to put their money into bitcoin but we are getting there slowly so there is a good chance that saving in bitcoin might be a common things to do in another 10-20 years

where I live most of them buy stocks and deposit their money. this happens because of their ignorance of bitcoin and fear of value. to transfer it is very difficult because most of them are afraid of losing their money and do not understand the world of bitcoin cs, as well as many slanted news circulating in every media at this time make them even more hesitant to join

We do really have our own reasons and to think that not all people would really be having that capability even if they wanted to leave out for good because we know that it would really that hard when it comes to finances and other factors needed for you to find out some opportunity on outside of your country and lots of people been hoping for this thing to happen but well we know that
reality doesnt always permit out on what we do have in mind thats why we do really end up on getting stuck on what we do have currently on.

Retired young is also my dream to enjoy the rest of my life without about how to fill my daily needs because I can buy anything to fill it. Many young people work hard because they want to retire young and it seems the mindset that young people change and do not follow the older adults who already have financial freedom. It will be better if they can retire young with financial freedom so they only need to be close to their family and the money will flow to them directly.

If the other young people want to search for other opportunities to have better lives, they can achieve their goals, which can help them retire young with financial freedom. Financial freedom could be the final dream for many people to enjoy their life with their beloved families.

I think it is economic pressure/lack of opportunities that motivates us to leave our motherland and work as an Expatriate in a foreign country where you face issues of language/culture and many mores, otherwise nobody likes to leave his/her loved one for the sake of money. I have been living in an oil rich Gulf country for long time and can feel pain of home sickness.

Thats true and I can relate to this because its also my choice not to go far away from where I used to live. I want to be near to my family, relatives, friends and I feel safe knowing that I am not alone. The pay rates for my job is not as high compared to working on other places but I think having a contentment is the reason why im not looking for more.

On the other side, its similar to people who chose not to engage themselves in crypto because fiat is their trusted currency. But this makes me a bit different since I chose to take risk because of the convenience and the benefits of using crypto.

Everyone has their own choices that can change their lives or not because in reality going to another zone is not necessarily as expected because we go to another zone or another country we have to be really mentally prepared, and must be ready to accept the consequences.
if what is expected is not appropriate, unless someone recommends it or there are friends there.


I personally prefer to live in a safe and comfortable zone, i.e. in my own area, I am always with my family and know the situation and what I don't understand is whether there is no job or income to make money in that zone.
If there is a job or something to earn, why move to another zone? The important thing is that we can be creative and develop our ability to make money and in addition to working in the nearest company, we can also do side jobs according to our expertise. which in my opinion is much better and the results we can immediately enjoy with our beloved family.

no need to go to another zone just want to receive bitcoin salary, because we can still buy it or get it for free as per our skill and we get both and also family, relatives, friends and so on and it's beautiful.

I believe there are two main reasons for people tending not to move: absence of language barrier and knowledge of how things are done in their country. The first reason is very important, as it allows you to communicate without additional effort, express your thoughts more clearly and come to understanding faster. In any field of activity, there is an urgent need to be correctly understood. The second reason is explained by the fact that even if the economic, social, cultural situation in the country in which you live leaves much to be desired, you know these features, which means that you can use them to your advantage. In order to understand the new conditions, it takes years, during which in your usual environment you could already achieve something. Therefore, people prefer to work with what is, and what they know, rather than looking for something possible and incomprehensible, albeit potentially better.

they do not to move because they are comfortable and they do not initiate freedom because they are already free ! free has a broad meaning one of which is free to speak in they zone ! there are many reasons but one of them is that they do not move because they think of other risks that are more dangerous for them or their families ! but not all who tend not to move on there must be some people who choose to move but it is not published ^{ants can separate themselves from the group} Humans will choose a more decent economy and life for the future full of risks ^{the other point of view is a matter of knowledge}

If we are to add some spice to the topic of the thread, humans hardly move. Basing our thoughts on the fact that, we change location for a livelihood somewhere might suggest some form of movement but then, if we tend to look at where we call home and where we rest even after we are gone (dead), you would understand that, we don't move. Like the research on names, it's always closer to base, to origin and so do every individual or most at the very least.

So long as, your movement isn't permanent, you still have a course to look towards your place of origin for a home, how then can you completely claim to have moved. You never move, when a part of you is staying!

It is what you call being in their comfort zones.
Not all people are indeed willing to take their risks.
As long as they are contented with where they are, they won't be moving to some other place.
But I guess this may not be true to millennials or younger generation as they seek new opportunities to other place.
However, we can't deny the fact that when it comes to investment, people tend to secure themselves with what is already known to them.
So this is understandable if they won't touch crypto, especially those that are not risk takers.

The reality is a lot of places mentioned at the beginning of the article were (maybe it has changed in the last decade) just not that interesting. Sure they possess a certain charm to the locals, much like anywhere you call home might hold a special place in your heart - but they were many times built as functional towns of industry or simply small scale "market" towns. They were never built to draw in tourist activity because they simply don't have the scale to accommodate that compared to somewhere like London or Edinburgh. People also don't tend to move very far because most tend to want to stay somewhat near to family and live in an already densely packed country, so just 50 miles away might give enough "distance".

Why would we move though? I mean I get that some nations are worse than others, for example I "rather" live in UK then live in my own nation, that would be better. However what people do not understand is that moving is not really that simple and you do not get that dream life all of a sudden. I have a friend who went to another nation as refugee and she is getting paid by the government and she is living a "decent" life compared to here but she can't see her family, doesn't have any friends, lives in constant fear of racism, and many other things. Long story short it is not simple.

Far easiest answer would be the fact that I can't leave my parents here and move to some other place, if you can then you should but mine are very old and I do not want to leave them here all alone just in case. Second stage would be finding job there, why would I go to a great nation just to be homeless there? All these combined makes it harder to move.

Sometimes it's not about changing the ways toward financial world. Some people are just okay with the ways of their life and no matter how you convince them to consider an alternative, they will never make a move.
Look at in this way. A man who live in a region where is lack of basic amenities but have enough to feed his family and live a normal life wouldn't want to move to Canada where there is every basic amenities but the tax would take aways his pu check and also the bills are not as friendly to him.
Bitcoin is a financial option and not everyone will agree to it no matter the level of hype or adoptions we called it, they will still take their normal life over bitcoin.

More like they don't move out of their comfort zone. They do know that their money might be used better somewhere else, but they just don't do want to do it because they are either very lazy and comfortable with what they have, or they just don't want to take any risk at all. Look at the media. I am sure they read a lot of stuffs about bitcoin on their social media platform and this scares them away from investing their money in crypto currencies. I am sure if crypto currency investments were risk free, every one would "start moving".

They afraid to take the risk since they doesn't know if they can earn something good in return that's why many doesn't want to get out on their comfort zone and they mostly settle on what they earn that's why we see a slow progress unto them. But if many can handle those things regarding on what they are afraid of for sure there efforts will be paid of in the long run. But I'm sure once those person who's afraid to take the risk will step up once they are already earning decent amount from what they are doing today.

Some people don't want to improve. They prefer calm life without challenging changes in their life. They don't see opportunities, they consider it to be fraud. Many people in my county have a very poor financial awareness. Stock market and forex are not developed here at all. The majority of people are not aware that it is possible to earn passive income, they don't want to learn.

and to succeed in this market you must be a "Risk Taker" and this is what they are missing , living in your comfort zone
makes you find no great opportunity but only those come what may.
When i was new in this world i also felt that same way but when i start earning and also when i got involved in Gambling here ? there
i learn how to risk and invest in the riskiest that i can find and the return is amazing .

There is no Opportunity in those who want only to take a bite in the food on their plate and don't wanna explore in some place where
offering best foods.

Often the reason is not that they want to grab the best bite not doing anything, but that they don't even think about the best bite. In my country for decades, people have been taught not to stick their heads out and be content with what they have, often the smallest. If you suddenly wanted more, then you concedered to be not happy with life and not having respect for others, because you should not be different in anything. Therefore, a huge number of people simply do not think that it is possible to somehow change the conditions of their life, and many of those who do think are afraid to bring it to life.

People tend not to move because they are fearful and are afraid of taking risk. So they continue living their life on what they are used to have and not coming out from their comfort zone. And i think having this kind of attitude will no longer lead to a progressive life.

However, their attitude towards their monetary terms may just only be the same. They are afraid to take risk into some new investments because they feel like they will only lose, so they prefer to keep their money without any profits being yield. People like this will never really reach huge achievements in life as they tend to be more satisfied on the things they only see around.

I typically prefer to move like nomads until I find somewhere fairly stable and right to settle in. It's hard to find such place in the world hence the need to keep moving/searching.
That's basically how I began to use Bitcoin in cyberspace. I saw shiny opportunities but the risk discouraged me.

Just searching for the right environment... One of the worst thing to do is to move for money

More precisely, many people need improvements in a quiet and stable space, rather than demanding immediate challenges to complete transformation, the transition and collision of fields makes them worry about many issues such as age, ability to learn as well as employment opportunities, keeping the same old areas as well as core values ​​and less volatility makes them more secure about the future and easier to adapt after innovations. This perception is similar to investing in the stock and crypto markets, forced to learn a lot but in return are vague opportunities, afraid to move not because they are lazy, afraid to move just because they do not see the future

I know this isn't exactly the topic at hand here but I seem to move every 2-3 years and it's the worst thing ever lol.  I hate living in a big city that requires you to have to move so often for so many different things.  Anyways, I have moved from my home state of Illinois to Florida (americas weirdest state) which was quite far away. I never understood people who were afraid to try and move and change things up.  I did end up moving back to my home state, but it was more for family health reasons (well and Florida is filled with crazies).

The only reason that people are not moving and are not making changes because they always think that big opportunities are already in their homeland. When in fact there are other great opportunities that we can found and will create more positive changes in our lives once we decide to move and create changes. Although not in general, but for some people who always stick to what they call their only home, maybe they have their own reasons like health or maybe family matters wherein their presence should always be around.

For people who do reside on thirdworld countries then their main aim is to get outside of their country and find a decent job and considering that currency value is much more worth then they would really
be seeing for these situations to be considerable and making their lives to be more better compared if they would really just go and work which they dont see any possible achievements or improvements in life which i couldnt really blame them off on ending up on having that decision even though its risky but they are much pretty aware of that.

Some people choose to stay or either find a way to move to a different country in order to improve their lives but some do like to stay unless it's not comfortable enough then they really have to move. So, if a person is comfortable enough to of using fiat than crypto then it's their choice but I think they might have missed the opportunity already or they just don't want to.

Well, crypto is not for everyone if they like to live with their fiat hidden in a bank then it's their personal choice maybe they were born rich already that's why they are comfortable with using fiat but for those someone who struggle for everyday life in order to prepare a good meal each day, they choose to gamble or risk using crypto but with the right research their investment will soon give them a freedom of using their own money without someone controlling it.

Sometimes, people are going to move, but the condition may not let it be. Sometimes, it is surely going to move, but in fact, they can't. and they are still here on monetary system.
And we cannot ignore or avoid this.
We really know how monetary system is being here around us in the world, related to not only about the rules and also financial system and regulation, but widely more than it.

Some people are moving out of their comfort zone for a quite short time and yes it is because of the monetary system, looking or searching for a better opportunities however if we were going to consider the availability of the opportunities to their place I think people will tend not to move really. As I've observed some of the people who used to moves for a quite long time only wanted to earn and save enough for their retirement fund so that they can go back to place where they came from because like what we used to heard "there's no place like home".

Maybe they are getting trapped in the regulations and financial system that makes them can not move because we know much reason from people who tell us that they are hard to move because of the situation around them. But if they have a chance to and are forced to move, they will try to move, no matter the consequences, because that is our nature. When someone is forced because of situational around them or something that they must do, they will start to move without thinking much about what will happen to them.

If we take a look at history we are going to see the main reason why people move from one geographical area to another has to do most of the time with some kind of crisis happening on their homeland, like a war, famine, lack of economic opportunities and other similar reasons, so extrapolating like what the OP paxmao is doing in economic terms this means that people will not change their monetary habits unless some kind of crisis hits them, and at least in my experience this is the only way I have seen consistent changes on the economic habits of people.

How do you pay for moving around like that? I mean if I wanted to go to vacation let alone stay there, I would have to pay maybe 6 month salary for living in Europe for just 1 month. Maybe you have some income or some amount of money from before, or you have a skill that allows you to move around like that, I don't know who you are so I can't make any calculations with the data I have.

However, I know myself and I know that there is no possible way for me to move to a "better" nation, it just doesn't work like that, since my work is not something I need to be even there to do that means I can freelance it and that makes it cheaper and can't afford to live in Europe or anywhere like that. Since, life is getting more expensive even where I live which is normally known as a cheap place, I may end up with living in a European nation one day in the future not because I got richer but I would be poor even here so might as well be poor somewhere else but moving around is still quite costly and I can't afford to do that so far.

It's some kind of security, false security... the problem many of us face! We have enough for basics and something extra maybe and that gives us enough comfort, risking that for something more can lead to losing what we have now! So we stay where we are... at least most of us who found some peace! But some people are forced to move for all sorts of reasons, and I believe that stats will show that people who are forced can lose a lot more by staying than by moving, so for them moving is the only positive option!

I am thinking about moving sometimes, but it's OK for me where I am now... yes, it could be better, but it's OK now. I guess every place has positive and negative things, at least I learned how to deal with negativities here and stay positive... learning that on some other place sounds like a big hussle! But in a case that something (someone) forces me I will make that decision!

What the article stated kinda spoke to me on different levels. I only ever moved once from where I grew, and it's not even a different city at all! Most opportunities that ever existed in front of me just came from neighboring cities that are only 10-30 minutes ride away from my home, hence I never felt the need to relocate somewhere far away from what I used to. Also, my expenses are comparatively small compared to what I earn from the job, and moving from this place to another place with less living expenses but different environment I'm not completely used to isn't something I would do. I wouldn't trade comfort for just a few extra dollars of savings every month.

But from other people's perspective, I understand why the need for jumping from place to place is there. Perhaps they don't settle and 'blend' in with their locality, or that some other place presents an opportunity they could never get from the place they are currently on.

We all have our personal reasons why we chose not to move from where we are right now. It's either we are already contented of what we have right now, or we are just afraid that we will only fail and definitely lose if we tend to move into other sorts of things.

For me, as long as there are enough good reasons to move then I will finally do it. But for now, I'm still doing great of where i am right now so possibly I will stay here as much as I want.

Most cases it would really be on family reasons on where they couldnt afford on leaving their loved ones but on some circumstances on where people do really forces out to do so because the need of money or with needs which it cant really be avoided for you not to consider on going into other countries on seeking off for some job.
We do have our own personal reasons but most of the time we would really be tending to make things improve specially in our living and it would really be needing
to sacrifice but of course there would be some factors to consider.

The reason why not many people decide to move to find income in other regions or other countries, the most powerful reason is family. I also got
a pretty good offer to work in another country with a large income, I decided to turn it down. Because I'm the type of person who can't stay away
from family, for me money is not the main thing in this life. I prefer family over anything, after all, my principle in life is that money can be
found anywhere. Although maybe the difficulty level is greater if it makes money in my area. But as long as I want to work hard, I believe I can
become rich, without leaving my family.

Yes, maybe some doubts are still surrounding, and probabilities of environment influences still give reasons why people are moving or not moving. Additionally, our mindset will be also influencing how we decide to move or not.
btw, there maybe positive and negative sides of this condition, but if we really want to make something new, out of comfort zone, and we are ready with the risks, including we are ready to learn more, we are better for moving.

Before we move to something new to us its really better to be prepared on certain circumstances since if we just take a risk without even plan or have back up let we say funds then we will end up getting broke if we fail to meet our expectation for adopting the risk to improve. But any of this for sure in the long run for taking the risk we will get familiarized on what things we need to do but expect this will cause a lot for us that's why as I said we need to prepare first before we step out on our comfort zones.

We cannot blame them because all they wanted is assurance and safeties of their investments.

It is like a playing and living inside your comfort zone .

and like a child that only going inside their House and their parent is very protective .

But once they find out how profitable this market is, surely they will move over and invest what they can afford .

and also defend to what kind of person or what kind of family brought them up, if they are being raised as fighter and tough character .

Basically, people move based on three terms.

1. Lack of comfort: one is likely to always be at a place should the person be comfortable with the way of living in that particular zone and doesn't see the need to expand to some territories. It becomes risky to try and expand to some new regions becuase, despite the opportunities that exists there in, there are also constraints that are opposing to foreigners no matter what you tend to offer. Hence, one who is not a risk taker is likely to stick to his or her locality except in cases  where comfort is lacking. Then, it becomes a pressing concern to take risk.

2. Proving to one's self: one typical example of this one is in the person of Cristiano Ronaldo.  This Portuguese @CR7 has been really mobile in terms of his career although, to prove to himself that his better and can do great across all leagues. There are a lot of persons too, who choose to  displace themselves to some completely new ways of doing things and of life in other to prove something to themselves.

3. Marriage: This union has been some reason though, not very many persons are displaced by this means but then, in one instance, one can find himself adopted to some new lifestyle completely.

The comfort zone will be why they do not want to move to the other place or job or other things because they do not want to explore the other.
They do not want to learn the new thing that could allow them to change their lives for the better.
Once they see how big the opportunity they can get, they will try and start to search for the things that can help them change.
Maybe it is hard to start for the first time and many tempt things that can make them go back to their comfort zone and only those who want to have a big intention to change their lives will survive and succeed.

Many countries that moved to legalized bitcoin in their country are doing well than those that still remain in their comfort zone thinking decentralized currency is not good for a country that have a good future. Those government officials that moved from their country to other countries to know what decentralized currency can do to a country that make it legalized and how it will reduce inflation and increase deflation in the country not to allow any citizens to experience hardship in the country.
Those countries that refused to move to accept bitcoin in their country are still experiencing high inflation in their communities. Many graduate find it difficult to get a good job that will help them to build up their own home.

The same goes for me, however, I'm not sure what these good reasons would be to make me move. As a person generally struggling to make decisions, it's easy to settle in a location, job, marriage and so on, just because you're used to it. It's hard to get outside your comfort level. Personally, I often whine about my current occupation, but haven't bothered to apply anywhere else, just because the unknown scares us.

This is one of the reasons I started talking to a psychologist, I'm overly stagnant and rarely make any choices that would upset/change the lifestyle/routine I'm used to.

The problem with most people is that whenever they get familiar with something, they find it difficult to leave that particular thing and try something new. A lot of people don’t like trying something new, once they have familiarized themselves with one thing , they just want to stick with that particular thing and not move ahead or check out other things that are around them.

So, this is a serious issue with most people, and it is not a good thing. Sometimes it’s good for us to leave our comfort zones and try out new things that you can find around us. If you continue with only things that you are familiar with and not try to leave that comfort zone ,  you might not be able to achieve anything.

It is not always things that are related to psychology or how you may not want to move or want to move but fail to do so. Sometimes it is about responsibilities in the nation you are here that keeps you staying in the house instead of going out. Family is the biggest reason for me, I once got a job offer from UK, it is very recent as well, I believe it was either august or very early September and I rejected it because I have responsibilities here that I need to handle.

After that few things happened and showed me how even if I accepted that, I would have paid so much money to move and then would had to come back only 1 month later, or maybe not even be able to move in time and had to stay here. Which is why I have to say that moving is something I would LOVE to do, specially to a better nation but it is something that I can't do even if I wanted to.

This is a sad reality for most of the people. Once they are comfortable with their current status, they will no longer find another option that will make them even more at ease. Instead, they stick to what they believed. But for the newborn millenials, they love to take risks so whatever opportunities they will encounter, they will surely grab for it. And it's a good thing that they are risk takers so they will really find the things that they are looking for and make them satisfied. In fact, this type of individuals are more on achievers but its also undeniable that they are also prone for more losses since they are more aggressive to create profits compared to those adult stages.

Without proper control, this aggressiveness mostly leads them to lose their money. But the good thing is they are not willing to give up right away. They will keep on trying to attain success. It's a good factor being millennia as they are not stuck with what they are currently using, but they are more on exploring potentials. ::)

It can be enhance thru time, if the momentum in learning how to invest or how to find other option to have a better life will be in their mindset, the chance of enjoying what is best for their future family will be secure financially.

This always happen to those people who's been hype and thinking to earn the same way as other who flaunt their money saying they earning a big money by doing this and those new guys follow those guys aggressively.

But as you said maybe this mindset will be enhance thru times since for sure they will learn from their experience and they will take time to think on what action they do so this flaws for early days is just part of learning process which I'm sure all of us went thru this situation.

Basically, humans are never satisfied. but sometimes we see many people who are satisfied with the comfort of the moment. in the sense that they do not want to grow bigger, tend to be grateful for what is already there. but it is different with the young soul who is always curious and wants to try something new, so like today there are many billionaires from young people.

Change isn't necessarily positive, and that's where most people (including myself) chicken out. For instance, leaving my current job, in which I've been working for the past two years, looks like a huge leap to me. I know, that I'm going to get paid each month, with an above average salary, how to manage the job and what to expect from it. However, I'm positive that I've missed a handful of opportunities by staying  stagnant.

It's basically being scared to lose what you already have, moving out of your comfort zone is a copious procedure, not many take such risks.

Interesting thought process paxmao, but you seem to leave your line of thought when you don't draw the parallel between geographic preferences and money preferences, i.e. the reason why they would move geographically (hunger, crime...). The list of reasons is long and to some degree differs from nation to nation, from person to person, but shortcomings in one form or another might make people move to another location the same way they might seek to join a different monetary system, or at least move their assets into another, more stable currency.

If you see your wealth dwindling away because of a specific currency your assets are predominantly denominated in, you are going to try to move some of your assets into a different currency. Now that this isn't easy because foreign exchange can be stopped (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-currency-idUSKBN22J14D), you are most likely going to watch out for a completely different monetary system.I guess it is all about incentive, and as the incentive for speculation/investment is obvious, in many areas of the world there are more pressing reasons that will constantly lead to more and more people getting into cryptocurrencies. That, however, depends a lot on the infrastructure and the ease of access and use that will hopefully be provided by brilliant minds and developers over time.

One thing that comes to my mind is Starlink. One could argue that people in rural areas will get cut off the Internet if the government finds out they are fleeing into cryptocurrencies. Or the Internet will be subject to harsh surveillance. But what is going to happen if all those Starlink satellites are in place? Can that even be stopped? Will Starlink be stopped by governments around the world? There is so much change around the corner the implication of which are not so easy to grasp at this point.

I can't imagine how someone who can't afford to work in a field that isn't his field forces himself to try something different just because he wants to gain experience and an opportunity to make more money. I don't think this is necessary because I'm pretty sure he'll have a hard time achieving result from his new job just because it's not his field.

A person with good knowledge and mindset may not need to move from their old job to new job because they just need to work with their brain to make a lot of money. My point is when someone has the desire to invest then this will help them a lot to make a profit regardless of which part they are interested in. A farmer does not have to stop farming just because he has invested in crypto from his crop. He can continue his work while also making a profit from his investment.

In our specific space and territory, we're emotionally attached to our loved ones, as well as our responsibilities. Yes, there are better opportunities in other places yet most people are happy and contented with what they have as long as they're comfortable living in peace. Sometimes, it's not only earnings and profits that could make us happy but the way we're living our lives.

It was just my life experience that I did till now. I have a job and I also try my best to be able to invest in profitable thing like crytpo or so on. Without going out of my comfort zone I don't think this will be a problem because I really enjoy both of these things at the same time.

Investing is indeed very profitable, but I also need to work and enjoy life beyond the aspect of how I spend my money on things like investing. I've been doing it for years, and it still makes me feel good.

I was fearing the same thing, I wasn't promoted to higher level in my job for 2.5 years, most anyone has ever worked in that position at my last job was 8 months, I stayed there for 2.5 years, I broke the record and then near quadrupled it, so I was a great employee and they didn't allow me to switch departments in the same place neither stating I am crucial for the work.

However they didn't give me any chief position, didn't promoted to higher level and so forth. Basically, it is not going to be anything good for me there as long as I stayed, so I quit and ever since then I have been a lot better. But I had friends like that who ended up a lot worse, like for example my wife was a teacher and she always wanted to be a teacher while growing up but after she became a teacher during her 4th year she decided she doesn't want to be a teacher anymore and hated her job, cried while going to work she hated THAT much.

So, she quit and ever since then she has been looking for some work that she could do and failed to do so for 3+ years now. So, I would say it is really not all the same and I get the idea of how quitting your job could be scary but if we don't do it then we can't grow and never have a "chance" to fill out the maximum our life could provide us.

I get it.  Not all new opportunities always turn out to be positive, sometimes its even a worst thing that comes. This is the reason why we have to carefully weigh things out if a new offer or opportunity is really better from our current job. Or maybe it might be good at first but later on, we realized its not for long term because its not a stable one. So i really understand for those who did not want to get out from their comfort zone anymore.

However, there are also instances that when a person gets to accept a new job and leave the old one, he gets to enjoy his life more because that is his passion and he knows exactly the flow of his new job.

I'm stuck in a job I do not like, while I have recently graduated from university, however, the money is quite decent and at the same time, it's a pretty stable job, one day off per week and two paid leaves per month. I've known the manager for two years now, he isn't the worst, but I've learned how to handle him and usually, my requirements (regarding work schedule) are met.

Despite not liking the job, I still haven't abandoned it. I've graduated, and I'm still there, I haven't even looked to find somewhere else, until a few weeks earlier. I'm basically stuck in a loop just because I'm too stagnant to get out of my comfort zone and try something else, mainly because I'm afraid that this something else, could be worse than my current situation.

Investing in Bitcoin is always shocking for many, especially when they do not know anything about financial markets and watch a lot of news on TV, which, CNN is a news network that does not speak well of BTC at all, at least CNN in Spanish in their economy space does not recommend investing in BTC at all, the reasons they say are:

1.-Very high volatility
2.- High risk asset

And there are many more that are reasons why they have been made by people who do know economics but who do not adapt to new technologies and if they do not adapt to new technologies they do not adapt to an alternative economy where freedom can be achieved. financial, for them the safe is the traditional thing, where the debt is the one who consumes their clients.

The fear of loss is real and many times it paralyzes people, however we need to understand as well that the circumstances that we are living are out of normal, the pandemic changed everything, I knew a lot of people that lost their jobs so the ones that still have them are afraid of leaving them because if they do and they do not find another soon then they will find themselves in a difficult position, so people prefer to endure a little bit more until things improve and the economy is healthier than right now.