I did! Thank you!

I'm happy to hear that!

Lol

Another: The most he most wretched social isolate is probably not the one with no person to talk to, but the one forced to avoid everyone they are close to.
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Who they avoid depends on which topic they are worried about. One bottom line: Close relationships are not, “We are close, therefore I trust you” but “We are close, therefore it’s complicated.”
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In a national survey, avoidance is so common that it is actually fundamental to strong ties, not incidental to them. The topic matters---e.g., people avoid sex more than any other topic---but people avoid loved ones for most topics they worry about. 2/

In fact, the biggest differences -- including gyms vs grocery stores -- are not within cities but between them. The city’s diversity and residential segregation matter. But there is a lot we still don’t know. 4/4

For the first 10km from home, every additional km takes people to a neighborhood increasingly different from the home. After that, it depends on the city. 3/

When people go to grocery stores, they go to neighborhoods more racially similar to their own than when they go to any other everyday establishment; when they go to the gyms, to places more racially different. 2/

Yes. And I did not know about it. Thank you.

I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...