• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I guess everyone has different priorities. I just refuse to let myself or my family live in a crappy situation because I want to stay in a specific location. I often see people living in poverty because they refuse to leave a place to take a job elsewhere. Doesn’t make sense to me, but everyone has their own life.

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      1 year ago

      People don’t live in poverty “because they refuse to move”

      They live in poverty because they are stuck there, and moving to somewhere else is incredibly expensive and difficult

      Your worldview is utterly detached from the reality of the common person

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        Not sure how that’s “detached from reality.”

        I’ve moved a ton. It has never cost me anything other than the cost of renting a moving truck and sore legs for a few days. Certainly beats living in a place with no job or some random low-paying job.

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah I mean, I came from a very poor region and it was hard to move for me, but it was made easier because my family was beginning to cut me off for being queer anyway and I had the privilege of WFH too. I know lots of people who’d move out of their region if not for their family supporting them in some way they can’t get elsewhere (or they don’t think so, atleast).