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Originally Posted by opendoor
Sure, income inequality, housing affordability, substance abuse, and crime rates aren't complex and interrelated issues. People just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and jump on a bus and move halfway across the country to places where they know no one and have no prospects.
I mean, it would be great if social problems were solved that easily, but obviously they're not.
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I won't bother with the substance abuse, because that's a completely separate issue.
However, in Kansas City the unemployment rate is 2.4%. The average home cost is $230 K. Tell me that someone can't make a decent life there if they wanted to.
No, everyone wants to live in the cool cities, and they suffer because of it. It's stupid. There's plenty in this country if you know where to look.