Accurate experience, I have some similar examples as well. I am still considering if I should be like your friend #4 and go back to eastern Canada to wait out

Accurate experience, I have some similar examples as well. I am still considering if I should be like your friend #4 and go back to eastern Canada to wait out this disastrous response in the US. If only winter wasn't coming, I would have probably already left but my lease is only ending at the end of September.