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Originally Posted by Catlady
Then why isn't anyone coming up with a ton of examples?  |
Honest guess? Industry pressure and a certain cultural climate has led to an over-abundance of titles where the visitor from the big city realizes how empty their life there was, and how much happier they are here in this small town where people are "real" and care about each other. (Because we all know that the lack of close personal connections is the only reason anyone would ever be unhappy living an urban lifestyle.)
I don't expect there to be a large number of them, but I refuse to believe that no one else ever thought of this angle.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Are you asking about books where the hero and heroine reconnect when they visit "home" then they both move to a big city that one or both were living in?
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For example, yes.
Or a book where the person visiting from the big city falls in love, and the one they fall in love with is happy to move back to the big city with them and they live happy there together.
One of the joys of reading is to be completely immersed in the story and to for a short while be there in another world and life for a while. That immersion is kind of difficult to get to when the dreams and ambitions of the kind of life the characters want, is practically the opposite of what I've always wanted, and the opposite of what I am very happy with.