sirakov
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
Anecdotal, but my own parents moved away from Chicago to rural Michigan when the economics just didn't add up. Chicago housing is hundreds of thousands, where as rural Michigan you can buy a good single family home for under $100k. Cheap enough to support a family off of a minimum wage job (and I mean real minimum wage, $8.50 an hour for Michigan).
"Several homeless families whose children attend local schools told the Guardian that they had considered moving to cheaper real estate markets, such as the agricultural Central Valley, but there were no jobs there."
Buy why not look evan farther? The US is much larger than California. There are places which much cheaper costs of living in the midwest and the south. Seems stubborn that you must stay in California.
Maybe I am misunderstanding something but is seems foolish to me to sit in a single location and complain that the right economic conditions for my success are not at my current location and refuse to move (especially ironic since we live in a capitalistic market economy, jobs are constantly changing and resources moving around).