It is almost impossible not to think of our own professional life and path in terms of exceptionalism and uniqueness. But, in fact, our professional story and path are tales of normality and generality. I became an urban professional from a rural start, but I have not seen my own transition story in any rural–urban transition context. I have just lived, worked, and moved. It was just me, looking for opportunities, moving around. I never felt poor; I did not move from a rural to an urban arrival city; I was not part of the urbanization trend or any global transition or stream in fact. But I was. Even when I read Arrival City by Dough Saunders,1 the coin fell. This was not my story, but theirs. But it was also my story.
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