The Daily Unlearner by Cammi Pham

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We Don’t Fall in Love with Places. We Fall in Love with Who We Think We Could Be There.
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We Don’t Fall in Love with Places. We Fall in Love with Who We Think We Could Be There.

Why Geography Is Less About Where You Live and More About Who You Want to Become.

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Jun 11, 2025
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We Don’t Fall in Love with Places. We Fall in Love with Who We Think We Could Be There.
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Dear Unlearners,

We don’t romanticize places. We romanticize the lives we think we could have inside them.

That’s the fantasy: reinvention. But with better architecture, cheaper bread, longer lunches. A soft launch of the new you. The kind of life where everything hard about you finally goes quiet.

I saw it again last week on TikTok.

A girl had moved to Ita…

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