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Why would you have serious costs to relocate if you don’t have a home (and thus, stuff that costs money to move)?
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
Why would you have serious costs to relocate if you don’t have a home (and thus, stuff that costs money to move)?
- lazyasciiart 7y agoAre you expecting them to live on the streets in the new town while they search for a job?
- b_tterc_p 7y agoI’m getting downvoted for pursuing this line of questioning, but... yes? I really don’t see why this is controversial. Let’s ignore edge cases. You’re a single dude. You’re used to living in a house. Suddenly your local environment is too expensive to live in a house with your current levels of employability. Option 1 is to live on the streets with your current job. Given the derivative of the economy you will not be able to afford housing in the near future. Option 2 is to move and seek a similar low paying job in an area with lower cost of living. Try to find a job, to acquire food and shelter. Option 2 feels to me like it could be much safer. Both require living on the streets, but the second one provides a path to not doing that. I get that both are unpleasant. But why not?
- lazyasciiart 7y agoI’m not sure how much you understand about how people become homeless. I don’t think anyone ever says they became homeless because “suddenly the area is too expensive”. The majority of people who become homeless are actually only homeless for a short time. Their roommate kicked them out, or they were sick and couldn’t make rent once, or or other individual crisis events, and they don’t think “welp that’s it, I can’t make it in this city any more”.