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Moving Nearer to Heaven: The Illusions and Disillusions of Migrants to Scenic Rural Places Hardback - 2000

by Patrick C. Jobes

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While the dream of moving to a small town in a beautiful rural area is common among many Americans, that dream often turns into a nightmare for those who decide to follow it. More than half of the people who move to small towns in recreational places will move away in less than five years, and their rapid successive moves are often marked by anger and frustration as they encounter the realities of poor job possibilities, an impersonal life, and a deteriorating natural environment. Jobes describes the experiences of newcomers, and oldtimers, to Bozeman, Montana, a small Rocky Mountain town Jobes has observed and researched since the early 1970s. Through interviews and observations, Jobes has found that newcomers arrive with unrealistic illusions about life in a small town and that life in such places is simultaneously complex and dynamic.

According to Jobes, people who make the move to small towns surrounded by a beautiful natural environment tend to experience a short period of euphoria followed by disillusionment and the decision to move away, while those who stay accommodate to the inevitable transformations of the local community and the surrounding natural environment that they and other newcomers have created. Jobes examines the changes that take place in these areas as development and growth cause the natural environment to rapidly develop and as the influx and constant turnover of new residents gradually undermine the personal and familiar foundations for the social community. The demographic and environmental changes, Jobes concludes, impose dynamic adjustments within the community, and the slower patterns of small town life give way to the faster and disjointed styles of the city.

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This book is about how and why people move to beautiful, safe and somewhat remote places.

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  • Title Moving Nearer to Heaven: The Illusions and Disillusions of Migrants to Scenic Rural Places
  • Author Patrick C. Jobes
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger
  • Publication date 2000-05-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780275966898 / 0275966895
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.42 x 0.94 in (24.28 x 16.31 x 2.39 cm)
  • Reading level 1180
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Urban-rural migration - Montana - Bozeman, Moving, Household - Montana - Bozeman Region
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99-55875
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.720

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 102

About the author

PATRICK C. JOBES is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of New England in Australia./e He was a founding member of the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, chaired the Natural Resources Research Group, and has held numerous regional and national appointments related to research and professional service.

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