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# §Florences
- [[People who aspire to  be world-class flock to do groundbreaking things  flock to Florences once they become well known]]
- [[A Florence needs accessible low-cost-of-living lifestyles]]
- [[Florences require a world-class high-profit discipline and a world-class cultural discipline]]
- [[A Florence is a city with multiple world-class scenes]]
- [[A city can become a Florence multiple times]]
- [[Florences are going to have a lot of inequality]]
- [[Florences pull in people of multiple disciplines]]
- [[A Florence is a location in time and space]]
- [[Florences are sticky]]
- [[Singapore could become the Florence of the 21st Century]]
- [[There are concrete things that can be done to attract misfits]]

### Questions
- [[What made Florence a Florence?]]
- [[Why do people go to a Florence?]]
- [[What is the difference between a Florence and simply a ‘top city?’]]
- [[What makes a Florence Sticky For People?]]
- [[What makes a Florence stop being a Florence?]]
- [[How often do people realize a Florence while it is still a Florence?]]
- [[What makes a Florence start being a Florence?]]
- [[Has anybody studied what made Paris Paris?]]

### References
- [[Taste for Makers - PG]]



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What made Florence a Florence?

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# Florences are sticky
People tend to *stay* in a Florence even if they came for a specific job. 

Contrast that to places where people do “a tour of duty” where they go and work there for a few years and then go back to wherever they were from.  The original pull to a Florence may be the idea that someone was going to do a tour of duty but at some point that tour is extended more and more …

This raises the inevitable question:
[[What makes a Florence Sticky For People?]]



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Florences are sticky

# What makes a Florence Sticky For People?
# What makes a Florence Sticky For People
### Some Hypotheses
- Density of connections.  People who feel well connected to a place want to stay there.



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