> Somehow we've gotten into a cultural state where everyone expects the place they live to stay exactly as it is for their lifetime.

I am trying to find a polite way to indicate that I find this to be a completely absurd reversal of the historical trend. Only within the last few generations, certainly within the last century, has it become so common to relocate far and/or frequently instead of most men living the whole of their lives within a day or two’s ride of their childhood home.