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No choices. This is in the Midwest in the middle of no-where. No you can't realistically move - every other location is far more expensive and would require s
by xyzzy21 5y ago
No choices. This is in the Midwest in the middle of no-where.
No you can't realistically move - every other location is far more expensive and would require significant relocation expense, and you'd have to leave your community, likely where you were born and raise(d) your family.
- nradov 5y agoAnd yet during the Great Depression poor people moved by the thousands to find work in other states. Sure it was hard but they did what they had to in order to survive.
- elliekelly 5y agoMobility doesn’t work like that anymore. Moving states in 1929 meant, for the most part, a completely fresh start - your landlord wasn’t going to chase you for the rest of the rent on your lease, you didn’t have a car payment or health insurance to worry about (using social security nets like medical or housing assistance is even harder when you haven’t yet established residency in a new state), and if you had any debts or even reputation issues they were very unlikely to “follow” you. Now we have credit reporting, background checks, and a system that, by design, makes it all but impossible to “start over” when you have no other options.
- alisonkisk 5y agoExcept the large numbers that didn't survive.