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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I can assure you that once you turn down one too many $10.00/hour fry-o-lator jobs, and are reduced to living in your vehicle, you're a gas station away from being "mobile".
Life's about choices. Some money is better than no money. Many have no money, and turning down work.
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I guess it all depends on how far you fall. If you are homeless, you are kidding yourself if you think you will be able to easily get a job and move. You might be able to, but likely you will end up in shelters and working from there.
If you are not so bad off that you are homeless and you are just poor and barely able to get by you could move, but it isn't so simple as packing up your stuff and moving somewhere else. You would have to save enough money for the actual move itself, then you will need enough money so you can get somewhere to live when you move to this new place. Finding an affordable place to live without a job is not easy, but if you do then you will need to get a job.
In a perfect world, if it all went smoothly you could pull it off, but the big question is: Would the move really help you if you are poor? The answer is not likely.
Sure, you may be able to move somewhere that has a lower cost of living, but the odds are that wages will be lower as well so they will match the cost of living. If you were barely getting by on $10 an hour where you were living and you move to a new state where the cost of living is 30% less, but you are only going to make $8.50 per hour, you likely haven't improved your life much.
Unless a person is willing to either go to school to learn how to do something that pays better or they are willing to work hard and trying to climb the ladder and continue to get better and better jobs moving is not going to help them.