LEADER 03451nam 2200589 450 001 9910814267503321 005 20230803200120.0 010 $a0-8265-0294-6 010 $a0-8265-2007-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000582212 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001384224 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11762390 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001384224 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11325727 035 $a(PQKB)11631132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3040170 035 $a(OCoLC)897466968 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43474 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3040170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10993825 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL671292 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000582212 100 $a20141219h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOpting for elsewhere $elifestyle migration in the american middle class /$fBrian A. Hoey 210 1$aNashville, Tennessee :$cVanderbilt University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8265-2005-7 311 $a1-322-40010-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a""Opting for Elsewhere examines the stories of everyday Americans who move to new places as a way to redefine themselves through reordering work, family, and personal priorities. Their lifestyle migration expresses longstanding cultural values while also demonstrating developing responses to distinctive contemporary challenges and opportunities"--Provided by publisher"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a""Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?" This is the central question of Opting for Elsewhere, as the reader encounters stories of people who chose relocation as a way of redefining themselves and reordering work, family, and personal priorities. This is a book about the impulse to start over. Whether downshifting from stressful careers or being downsized from jobs lost in a surge of economic restructuring, lifestyle migrants seek refuge in places that seem to resonate with an idealized, potential self. Choosing the "option of elsewhere" and moving as a means of remaking self through sheer force of will are basic facets of American character, forged in its history as a developing nation of immigrants with a seemingly ever-expanding frontier. Building off years of interviews and research in the Midwest, including areas of Michigan, Brian Hoey provides an evocative illustration of the ways these sweeping changes impact people and the communities where 'they live and work as well as how both react--devising strategies for either coping with or challenging the status quo. This portrait of starting over in the heartland of America compels the reader to ask where we are going next as an emerging postindustrial society"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLifestyles$zUnited States 606 $aMiddle class$zUnited States 615 0$aLifestyles 615 0$aMiddle class 676 $a305.5/50973 686 $aSOC002000$aHIS036070$aSOC026000$2bisacsh 700 $aHoey$b Brian A.$f1968-$01640774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814267503321 996 $aOpting for elsewhere$93984474 997 $aUNINA