I've been the unemployed/underemployed guy having wilderness adventures with a beautiful girlfriend before. It's great (for a time.) But we're not talking about

I've been the unemployed/underemployed guy having wilderness adventures with a beautiful girlfriend before. It's great (for a time.) But we're not talking about having wilderness adventures. We're talking about moving far away from anywhere you know to live in rural poverty in far upstate New York and work at a gas station in a depressed area, in a dilapidated building on land that virtually nobody wants, for good reason. That specific solution is what the author of this piece proposed for the woes of the young people of America, not wilderness adventures or anything else. Only on HN would I have to explain why this might affect your romantic life, but here goes. Statistically speaking, for men aged 25-54 in the US, being poor [1] nearly halves your chances of finding a partner. Chances which, I might add, are already not great, and certainly not improved by your lack of car, reliable heat, social connections et cetera. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-share-of-u-s-adults-are-living-without-a-spouse-or-partner/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-... [1] men earning 150% of federal poverty level for a one-person household