0 free to do what you like and go where you like because you have no responsibilities:
My sister's married but I'm still footloose and fancy-free.
From this comes the word footloose, the sailor's term for somebody who is less easily controlled.
Transport costs and footloose behaviour are not the whole story.
Governments that want to compensate these losers now confront the footloose capital that shrinks the tax base and penalizes deficit spending.
The latter, while attempting to insulate their territory from the volatility of the international economy, are forced to compete for footloose capital.
They are now footloose financial institutions with little commitment to those places that grew them, invested in them and developed them over 120 years.
The limited amount of footloose industry available, which is becoming increasingly limited, will now have to be spread even more widely.
Above all, the problem is that we do not have that many footloose industries, nationally or internationally.
Because of new technology, many of the activities of the civil service are essentially footloose and could effectively be located anywhere.
