A moment where the anywheres worldview or an anywheres person visibly misfires — usually when their cosmopolitan assumptions crash into the reality of people who don't share them. Classic anywheres fails include: confidently explaining to a northern deindustrialised town why globalisation is net positive, suggesting 'just move somewhere with better jobs,' or assuming that everyone can and should want the mobile, rootless lifestyle. Online, it's used to highlight the blind spots of liberal elites who've genuinely lost the ability to read the room of people with deep local roots.
Suggesting that redundant steelworkers 'retrain as coders and move to London' is a textbook anywheres fail.
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