Schrödinger's Apartment: Another You Exists in Every City You Haven't Met Yet, A Case for Getting Out of Your Bubble

Place used to define us not only physically—as a Southerner or a New Yorker, as an immigrant or an explorer—but also emotionally. To leave the place where you were born was to disconnect from far more than geography. It meant taking on the exhilarating challenge of forming a new identity.

travel to different regions and countries allows us to ‘rub and polish our brains’ against others,