I’ve just had a lot of friends who got sold the bill of goods of “move out to [insert Midwestern state] it’s so much cheaper and everyone is nice” only to get t

I’ve just had a lot of friends who got sold the bill of goods of “move out to [insert Midwestern state] it’s so much cheaper and everyone is nice” only to get trapped in toxic, underpaying workplaces with nowhere to go. The ones that have families tend to just suffer through it and the ones that don’t end up back in big metros within a few years. And before you think I’m some coastal elitist, I was born and raised in unincorporated farm country. I just also know the realities of the job market.