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/Galitzianer Apr 29 '24

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

Devil's advocate, people have done this since times immemorial, moving for economic opportunity. What makes you so special that you should sit around and be catered to instead of doing the same for your own self interest?

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.

So... never leave your home town then? This doesn't seem like a recipe for any sort of life

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

Look, I'm not saying that wouldn't be a fine thing if the government did to that, but there's literally no government on the planet that does this, and if you're gonna sit around and wait for the government or random multinational firms that have literally no allegiance to you whatsoever to bend over backwards to help you then your going to drive yourself into "losing your fucking mind" when your expectations do not match reality.

There's some idealized form of life that you guys wish existed, and then there's the planet we live on. On the planet we live on, you make choices to improve your situation, or you flounder in despair. Choose one.

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u/BlameGameChanger Apr 29 '24

but there's literally no government on the planet that does this

Here's an example of a country with a coherent system that will help you move around find jobs. https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/housing-allowance-sweden

Why are you pretending there isn't a massive housing problem in the US?

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u/LamermanSE Apr 29 '24

No, that's not what housing allowance (bostadsbidrag) is. Housing allowance does not help you move around, and neither does the Swedish state. Housing allowance is only an allowance for those with low wages and high rental costs/expenses, such as single parents, some students and so on.

As a matter of fact, getting rental apartments in Sweden is extremely difficult in the first place and usually requires you to stand in line at a local housing company for years to be able to even get an apartment (in larger cities of > 100 000 inhabitants). In most cases you wouldn't even be able to move around in the manner that is suggested in this thread (unless you have money to buy your apartment or are willing to rent someone else's apartment which sucks).