I grew up in extreme poverty and for myself (and others in a similar situation) moving was, perhaps contrary to intuition, a pretty common thing. Whenever a bet

I grew up in extreme poverty and for myself (and others in a similar situation) moving was, perhaps contrary to intuition, a pretty common thing. Whenever a better paying job or cheaper housing popped up, we moved. There are a number of factors that make it somewhat easier to move when you're in poverty. In particular you're always renting and you have negligible items of wealth. For instance you don't need to worry about a place accepts pets when you can't even afford a cat. An extra $50 a month is a pretty big deal when you don't have anything so there's much more of an external drive to move for what otherwise people might just simply accept. There are also extrinsic factors that, more or less, force moving when you're in poverty. Indeed FiveThirtyEight dug up the stats and people who earn < $5000 per year are just about twice as likely to move (13%), in any given year, than those earning > $100,000 (7%). [1] In some cases there are going to be some extenuating circumstances that prevent things like moving. For instance, extreme disability is one possibility, though that does not seem to be the issue in this case. The mother seems able, younger mid aged, and had 3 children. If she was disabled in any significant way, the media pieces and her crowd funding would also have mentioned that, to further draw at pathos. Ultimately you cannot discount the fact that there are many negligent parents. In this case the parent is claiming, in her crowd funding page [2], that she only realized pollution might be a trigger for her daughter's asthma, after she died. Quoting her, "Since her death I have become aware of the dangers posed by air pollution and discovered that our home, located approximately 25 metres from the South Circular in London, was a known air pollution ‘hot spot’ and started to put two and two together. ". It's insane and inexcusable that somebody can have a daughter with severe asthma and not realize pollution and fumes can trigger it. That's something any 10 second search on asthma would turn up. [1] - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-times-the-average-person-moves/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-times-the-aver... [2] - https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/airpollution/ https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/airpollution/