To move or not to move

You've read Sampson on mobility and division in Chicago. So, drawing on and integrating your two emphasis areas, how would you answer these two questions: Why do people chose to move to different neighborhoods? 

My two emphasis fields are business and criminal justice. From a business stand point people move from one place to another to find jobs that pay more than their current job. In a sense Sampson is agreeing with this. Sampson states that homeownership reduces the likelihood that an individual will move but he also states that people tend to relocate to an area very similar to their existing area (with the exception of blacks moving to more diverse communities). The text states that the majority of people who move do not change SES nor do they do so because of individual choices. So back to my business reasoning, people moving to find jobs is possible depending on their current circumstances and ethnicity (according to the text) but really not just to find a job. From a criminal justice perspective people relocate to increase their feeling of being safe (lower crime rates). Sampson supports this statement a little by saying that blacks exposed to violence and whites with depression are more likely to relocate. Depression can be caused from many different things but seeing crime all around could be one cause, therefore, crime rate increases cause relocation increases. Sampson also states that blacks relocate more due to their collective perception of disorder.

How likely is it that their individual choices will transform the communities they leave or enter?

According to Sampson, individual choices will have extremely minor (if any at all) effect on the communities they leave or enter unless that individual is tied to a big event changer. What I mean is if the person decides to bomb (my criminal justice emphasis) an important building causing a huge disruption in the norm then that neighborhood or community may change drastically. On the flip side, someone could have ties with a big (and successful) business that drastically changes the community (my business emphasis). These are few and far between but it is possible according to Sampson.