[sageabilly]

Moving requires a massive amount of privilege in the first place: - Money to fund the logistics of moving (van, first month's rent, etc) - Money to cruise on until you get a job in a new location - Money to transfer all of your life-stuff to a new location (internet, cable, power and water, etc) - Building on the last point, a high enough credit score to be able to get power, water, cable, etc in a new place without putting down a deposit - Ability to take time off work to interview, IF you're lucky enough to be in a position where you can job hunt while still being employed full-time - Reliable daycare where you are moving TO- daycare is super expensive and often times daycare has waiting lists so you can't just plop your kid down somewhere else. - No ties to the area you're leaving- so no elderly parents to take care of, no family network to leave behind, etc

And on and on and on. Saying "Just Leave" is like saying "Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps!". If you're already working 60 hours a week and barely scraping by, how in the hell are you going to find the time and the money to uproot everything and move?

[amigoingtodie]

So, what is your advice?

Tough it out? Lobby?

[justinzollars]

I moved to San Francisco with no money and 50,000 in college debt with a degree that wasn't worth much at the start of the great recession. No one wanted to hire me. Yet I pulled through.

Having a bad attitude is the worst advice.

[ricw]

Easily said when you're young, unbound and without family.

[justinzollars]

I met a lyft driver yesterday: a man from Afghanistan who quit his day job is starting a business (a smoke shop in Santa Rosa). He has a family and he said

"I have had many businesses in my life, I fail and I try again, I fail and I try again".

He lost his home in the war and is literally starting at zero. It is really about a positive attitude vs a shit attitude.

[KekDemaga]

Ok, eliminate anyone who meets that criteria and the criticism remains valid.