High rates of residential mobility and high-rise housing disrupt the ability to establish and maintain social ties.

Among these factors were age, race, residential mobility, and marital status.

Furthermore, the residential mobility decreased; they were no longer allowed to move anywhere they liked, as was the custom.

Domestic architecture exposed during excavation is the earliest evidence of reduced residential mobility in the region.

"You look at the divorce rate of 50 percent and the tremendous residential and job mobility in this country," Mr. Levin said.

Changing housing requirements also affect rural migration and the family life-cycle is an important factor in residential mobility (Rossi 1955; Morgan 1976).

Americans' residential mobility, although still high by international standards, has been dropping over the last century.

High residential mobility is associated with a higher crime rate.

Some blame residential mobility that leaves adults with fewer links to communities.

Not very long ago I found myself being interviewed in a university survey on residential mobility in which some of my own students were fieldworkers.