Indeed not. Most folks can consider only a few moves, and hardly anybody plots more than 1 move ahead. Truly, the human state-space is finite (and quite tiny). Most folks sit in their hometown and vegetate. Instead of starting a business/catching a bus to the city/joining the circus/hiking into the woods to become a hermit/running for office/and on and on.
I'm guessing astazangasta is objecting less to the statistics of how many people stay in their hometown, and more to the pejorative framing of that as "sitting" and "vegetating".
Which strikes me as a fair point. I'm sure there are lots of positives to staying near family and friends, and if you have stronger community ties you may well be more active in that community.
