3 ms·
People move to these coastal cities because they're vibrant economic centres. They are looking to improve their situation so they go to places where the jobs ar
by Tiktaalik 5y ago
People move to these coastal cities because they're vibrant economic centres. They are looking to improve their situation so they go to places where the jobs are, just like anyone else. The same thing that attracts SF tech workers.
Then misfortunes happen, they lose their job, they lose their health, they lose their apartment etc etc.
Now they're stuck.
They don't move to cheaper areas of the country because 1) there are real costs to moving (money they don't have) and 2) the economic prospects in the cheaper part of the country are worse.
- wyager 5y ago> the economic prospects in the cheaper part of the country are worse. This is not meaningfully true for people with lower skill levels. You can have a much higher standard of living as a laborer in Laredo than in SF.