How Boomers Blocked the Open Road

For Americans born in the Eighties and early Nineties, moving was a normal, expected, and alternatively exciting and devastating part of childhood. If your family didn’t move, your friends did, or you made friends with the new kids who enrolled in your school each fall. Why? Because you parents were Boomers, and Boomers liked to trade houses and trade jobs; it was a kind of mania with them.