sedentarism
"As with Cain, an infantile attachment to the visible security of place characterises both those antediluvians who 'practice how to live secure, / Worldly or dissolute, on what thir Lords / Shall leave them to enjoy' and those postdiluvians who build to 'get themselves a name, lest far disperst / In foreign Lands thir memory be lost'. If the one embodies Satan's impulse to 'reign secure' and Belial's counsel to remain 'thus sitting' in 'ignoble ease and peaceful sloth', the other embodies the anxieties of Belial, who fears being 'swallow'd up and lost / In the wide womb of created night', of Adam, who would rear altars 'in memory, / Or monument to Ages', of the latter-day wolves who will 'avail themselves of names, / Places and titles', and of the Milton who in 1659 momentarily despaired that the failure to build 'this goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which the English boasted' would transform the nation into modern Babylonians, who have 'left no memorial of thir work behinde them remaining, but in the common laughter of Europ'. In each case, the sense of identity is bound to its setting, the limits of the latter curbing the expansion of the former".
Lawrence Manley, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 577.
In light of the approaching moving season, I quote Manley and Milton. Some time ago I've wondered about the necessity to even struggle to step on the bottom rung of the property ladder. Without the burden of mortgage payments, or other travails associated with owning a plot of land, one should be able to live anywhere, anytime by renting. HY tells me that in a practical sense, would one be able to afford rents after he or she has retired? After coming across this paragraph I am considering the negative side of a nomadic lifestyle; I am even having the strangest fantasy of getting a blue plaque outside my own house: R. Lin (1978 - 2078) Taiwanese girl who makes good breakfasts.