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Behaviorism posted...

masticatingman posted...

Family members or friends/neighbors or whatever are entitled to alert the police if you have gone missing out of the blue and it strikes them as odd. Obviously, in their minds, something might have actually happened to you - you could be ill, abducted, dead, etc. And welfare checks can always be done on you which can lead to a variety of events. But in the end, if everything you're doing is above board, no, you won't be arrested, but you will be sought out. Which in today's world honestly makes it more ideal in my mind to tie up any loose ends in your personal life before changing it up drastically. Preferably over a phone conversation so they know it's actually you. At that point, pretty much regardless of your reasoning, if you're free of commitments, people will have to leave you be.

Pre-internet era, yeah, if you were a guy, then seriously nobody would care at all. It would just be assumed you decided to up and move. Used to be a fairly common thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

This is the definition of a Missing White Woman in the article:

Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The phenomenon is defined as the Western media's undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing women of color, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys.

And then one of the notable examples they provide is Princess Diana. No shit she received media attention, she was probably one of the 5 most famous women in the world when she died. She isnt like the other people on the list who were famous entirely due to them going missing...
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