[sirakov]

It's that what all immigrants do? Uprooting for economic reasons is pretty common, (immigration, children moving away from parents, etc). If anything they (and we as a society) should be thankful that there is the opportunity to move unrestricted in a large and diverse nation.

[rinchik1]

Exactly my thoughts. Cognitive stagnation, inflexibility, absence of basic planning and analysis, religious frames they put themselves in etc etc all these are the factors that don't allow these individuals to break class levels up or even stay on the same level.

[PhasmaFelis]

You sound like you think it's easy.

[rayiner]

It's not easy (immigrant here), but it's better than being homeless!

[johndubchak]

Many are from the area and have lived in the area most of their lives. The current situation has evolved over the last 20 or so years to the point where it has become economically impossible to live because of the "outsiders", from large tech companies, coming in and displacing them.

How willingly would you be to pick up and move in this situation?

[sirakov]

These "outsiders" are themselves fellow Americans or immigrants who uprooted their lives in search of economic prosperity.

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).

[johndubchak]

The article never mentioned they are complaining, IIRC. They are economically displaced. Where would they go?

This is a large-scale socio-economic uprooting. Many of them lack marketable job skills and the necessary finances to allow location portability.

We're experiencing a very large shift in financial wealth where the level of poverty in the country is increasing at rates not seen since The New Deal and that's the entire point: the Bay Area is an extreme example of this where economic disparity is so extreme. Add to that the socially minded nature of California and you have those people who "complain" of the lack of a social safety net at the Federal level or even a lack of a fair balance of distributing economic wealth fairly.

edit:

And our "capitalistic market economy" is anything but capitalistic, in fact it is predatory upon the poor and economically disadvantaged. [1],[2],[3],[4]

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/26/american-capitalism-vs...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

[3] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/making-money...

[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/social-immobility-c...

[harryh]

There is no meaningful data that backs up your assertion that the poverty rate in the United States is significantly increasing. In fact, the rate has been essentially flat for 50 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...

[rad88]

TFA describes a mom who is keeping it together for a family of five on a $11/hour wage (they lost the home when the dad got injured), and teachers who are commuting 2+ hours each way to get to work.

What evidence do you have that these people are too foolish to understand our economy? Or too stubborn to do what is needed in order to succeed?

[sirakov]

Primarily this statement.

"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.