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It just doesn't make sense to be earning minimum wage and spending $1400/month to live in a 1-bed apartment. There are cheaper places to live elsewhere that are
by cpncrunch 13y ago
It just doesn't make sense to be earning minimum wage and spending $1400/month to live in a 1-bed apartment. There are cheaper places to live elsewhere that are safe to live where you can earn similar wages.
- solarmist 13y agoTrue, sure they could move to Idaho or Montana, but many people have roots and strong family ties, which bind them to a small geographic area, so to them leaving simply isn't an option to them anymore than going and living on the moon would be (and I mean that almost literally). I have an uncle that's never left the state and considers a "city" an hour away an exotic location. For example 46% of midwesterners live in the same community their entire life (http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/Movers-and-Stayers.pdf http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/Movers-and-Stayers....), even though many of them could probably move elsewhere when the finish school (HS, Tech, College, Uni, etc.) and get much better jobs than they could locally.
- tsotha 13y agoThat was exactly my thought when I read this paragraph. >Candelaria shares a one-bedroom apartment with her husband and two teenage daughters. They struggle to get by even though she and her husband both work -- she as a janitor at night, and her husband as a tree-trimmer during the day.