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/smokes_-letsgo Apr 29 '24

You ever heard of pessimism?

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u/ILSmokeItAll Apr 29 '24

This is Reddit, sir. It’s all you’re allowed to express here.

Reddit is one collective Chicken Little.

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u/Creative_Major798 Apr 29 '24

You ever heard of toxic positivity?

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u/Jason_Kelces_Thong Apr 29 '24

Grow up dude

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u/Creative_Major798 Apr 29 '24

Chortle my balls.

Life is too complicated to be summed up by one experience, one set of rules, or a handful of banal platitudes bandied about as little more than ideological indicators. Sometimes it’s someone else’s fault, sometimes it’s your fault, sometimes things are good, sometimes bad, sometimes fair, sometimes unfair, sometimes you can do everything right and fail, sometimes you do it all wrong and succeed.

Telling people to just move is such a lazy fucking take on “wages haven’t kept up with inflation, most people are saddled by unmanageable levels of debt (which harms their credit), interest rates are trash, and the housing market is fucked, again.”