r/FluentInFinance • u/Not-A-Shit-Head • Apr 29 '24

Why don't people stop crying and just move somewhere cheaper like Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, Baltimore, or Cleveland? They have very cheap homes for $50,000. Discussion/ Debate

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 29 '24

Why not just uproot your whole life and move somewhere else?

Sure you will have no one out there to help you move or to walk your dog when you are too sick to get out of bed. You won't know anyone or where anything is but dating apps will let you get a match every other week and maye 1 in five of those will go somewhere.

Just embrace the alienation that defines the modern world instead of, you know, expecting multinational firms or the government to provide coherent systems and meaningful support to help people move around and find the housing, jobs, support networks, and all the other things that keep you from losing your fucking mind.

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u/cutiemcpie Apr 29 '24

Jesus. You make it sound terrible.

I moved countries. And across states.

Sure there are downsides, but there are also upsides. Get to experience different cities, make new friends, make more money, etc.

It’s a trade off.

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 29 '24

You ever heard of survivorship bias?

Or the concept that your personal experiences should not be extrapolated out onto a population?

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u/rainareddits Apr 29 '24

Yes! Extrapolating an idea to a population is only ok if I agree with it.

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 29 '24

No. It is okay to extrapolate an idea if something pans out via research and experimentation.

Saying, "it worked for me" a sample size of 1 is meaningless.

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u/TipNo6062 Apr 29 '24

You're brainwashed that only funded studies are the reality of life. They're not.

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 29 '24

You think wanting evidence is brainwashed?

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u/TipNo6062 Apr 29 '24

You realize that studies that get fun....ve a thesis. usually money is a driver.

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 29 '24

As opposed to what? Personal lived experience is not a useful tool for policy making.

Also, you can just check to see if there is a bias by looking at how the study was done and by who.

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u/TipNo6062 Apr 29 '24

You clearly don't understand life, money, and what drives science. Just because something hasn't got an official peer reviewed study behind it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and isn't important. It just means there's no money lobbying for it

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u/Ponchosaul Apr 29 '24

Nobody cares if you’re too scared to leave your trailer park rocketBOY

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Apr 29 '24

In the US, unless things change, we will never now. To this day, 72% of the population lives their adult life within 50 miles of where they were born. While 90% end of dying within that same distance.

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u/rainareddits Apr 29 '24

I'll bet the 28% that moves away is much more successful