In this study, I observed other people's perspectives on moving and how they feel about moves. Statistically, 35.9 million people a year move in the United States (Ihrke, 1). My study showed that the majority of people viewed moving as a positive thing, people moving away as a negative thing, new places as positive, and new people as negative.
I assumed that people moving away would be a negative thing because most people miss their friends when they move. From my experience, I've always viewed it as a negative thing for the same reason, I wish they could stay and it's harder to continue my life without them around. This was apparent in other people's opinions as they agreed.
For moving in general, I was surprised to find that many people viewed it positively. Their reasoning for it was that it allowed them to have the chance to grow into a new environment. Even though they hated moving, they appreciated the result more than the devastation of moving in the first place.
New places were also viewed as positive because many people said that they liked exploring the world. They said that they didn't like the fact that they would be living in the new place, but they liked discovering and learning to love new places for different reasons.
Finally, new people were negative for the majority of people because they struggled with meeting new people, forming new connections, and missing their old people. Many reported that they missed their old friends and community so much that it overshadowed the newer people and new experiences they were able to share with others. Others said that forming new connections was the most difficult part for them because it was harder for them to overcome their nerves of living around a new community of people.
In short, the results were divided mostly into half, there are both positive and negative aspects about moving.
Regarding the graph data, it is split up artistically into a positive and negative side (the positive being the side with white shards and the negative being with the black shards). I spaced out the graph so that if you follow the lines across the paper they will have a positive and negative side, showing both the positive and negative results of how people answered the questions.
The reason I split up the data this way was not to highlight the specifics, but to show that moving has both light and shadow involved, that everyone interprets it differently, and that it really is up to interpretation with everyone. I feel like it was the best way to get the point across that a lot of the results were very even in comparison.