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I think you might be conflating significant discomfort with financial inability. People used to uproot their families and migrate while scavenging, or dad would
by robbedpeter 4y ago
I think you might be conflating significant discomfort with financial inability. People used to uproot their families and migrate while scavenging, or dad would move to a place with better prospects while sending money back home until they'd saved enough to move.
There are places where the cost of living is less than half what it is in Florida. Disrupting your family's life over a two year period to make a move is risky and painful, but far more feasible than people usually say.
Given modern food banks, charity, gofundme, etc, not wanting to move is a decision rooted in comfort, not survival.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoJust a gentle suggestion: next time you have a chance, talk to someone who is in the kind of economic situation you allude to here. Talk to the cleaners or security guards at your office, talk to people who perhaps clean your home or cut your grass, talk to any server or cook you interact with. You will hear lots of stories, I'm sure, but not many that fit into your picture here. More people than not are absolutely unable to make progress in their life, they are not "uncomfortable" with it, they are postponing medically necessary surgery to get the hours, they are working 60hrs a week gladly to just make rent, they are trying so hard to be smart with their time and opportunity, with little actual reward. Really, just ask! It will open your eyes, I promise you.
- robbedpeter 4y agoI'm not speaking from ignorance, but a place of brutal pragmatism. I understand that mobility comes with risks and disruption and is not always a good move. It is, however, far more possible and feasible than many make it out to be, and sometimes the best choice still isn't a good one.