Modern Nomads

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This paper examines the topic of modern nomads, the twentieth century equivalent of people and families constantly on the move. It shows how in the last twenty years or so, people have become more and more mobile, moving from place to place, city to city, and even house to house. It analyzes some of the U.K. 2001 census statistics and analyzes the change in population density percentages over time. It discusses the socio-economic factors that make people move and the major shift from an agrarian culture to a technological one. The paper concludes with the physical act of moving itself, how it is not so easy and very costly to up and move home. Even trends in furniture are changing, people prefer free standing over built-in and have a tendency to buy furniture that is light and easy to move.

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"There is quite a bit of hard statistical evidence that shows that people are indeed very mobile. In 2001, the census showed that 57 percent of people who own the titles to their homes (owe no mortgage) had lived in that home for over twenty years. The second least mobile group were local authority tenants, where 25 percent had been in their home for over twenty years. his is due to a variety of factors. As for the home owners, these people are established in their homes and careers. To have owned a home and to have lived their for twenty years. These people lived in a different age than people do now, people to day, as the statistics bear out, are much more mobile. People living in local authority housing are restricted in their moving, therefore they do not move particularly often. Tenants that live in housing associations are only half as likely as local authority tenants to live in their residence for over twenty years. In fact, only 13 percent of these tenants are likely to stay in the same place for that long."

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