[slenk]

Obviously you've never lived paycheck to paycheck. If you don't have a job you can't afford to move - hell, if you have a minimum wage job you can't just afford to move.

Most places at least require a hefty sum of rent up front to even get in somewhere else.

Then if you don't have a job, at least in the US, they recommend you get COBRA, so you don't have any gaps in your health insurance record. Because they decided that was bad. And COBRA is _expensive_. Again, not something you can afford if you are living paycheck to paycheck.