all through human history, people have moved from rural to urban areas searching for better living conditions, employment and such. one can see endless cluster of slums with bare minimum living conditions near to luxurious high rises in the city of Mumbai, India for example. most of them do not go back to their origin. low income areas are common in the southern parts of any city in the world (this is just a generalized observation of mine -I do not know why south- may be the north of the river banks are settled by people earlier. then they become wealthy and later the south was inhabited by latecomers) migration is a natural process. birds and animals do it. human history is filled with exoduses. refugees, pilgrims, immigrants, sailors, soldiers, tramps, business wo/men, gypsies, tourists, students and the list goes on. but uprooting makes a person weak until the new roots become strong and healthy again. some people can not do this effectively. many live in the nostalgic past and do not blend completely with the immediate present. but their kids do not have this nostalgia. they grow up in the present with their friends. the unrealistic nostalgia makes them without the reality orientation to the now. they do not feel the pulse back at their home-town as they do not live there anymore. so internally they are disconnected with both the worlds. this unreal state of disowning a place at a particular time in history, makes them vulnerable to all kinds of brainwashing tools of the market culture. at the same time they are hard workers with this instability inside. it is a strange mix.
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