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[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I just can't imagine leaving my community so easily for a job I guess, but I imagine plenty of folks must do it all the time.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

congrats on having a community.

i hate it here get me out

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Find a big queer city >:) even if you aren't queer there'll be plenty of fine folks and communists abound

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess everyone has different priorities. I just refuse to let myself or my family live in a crappy situation because I want to stay in a specific location. I often see people living in poverty because they refuse to leave a place to take a job elsewhere. Doesn't make sense to me, but everyone has their own life.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People don’t live in poverty “because they refuse to move”

They live in poverty because they are stuck there, and moving to somewhere else is incredibly expensive and difficult

Your worldview is utterly detached from the reality of the common person

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Not sure how that's "detached from reality."

I've moved a ton. It has never cost me anything other than the cost of renting a moving truck and sore legs for a few days. Certainly beats living in a place with no job or some random low-paying job.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago
[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Lol that you think your experience is the norm while claiming that others are simply fools for choosing not to move

The news flash here brain genius, is that YOU can do that, almost everyone else cannot

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

All right. Fair enough. I don't think that I took everyone else for a fool, but I never saw it as a very expensive or hard thing to move. Not in my experience. But others could have a different experience. Thanks for the heads-up.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for reflecting o7

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mean, I came from a very poor region and it was hard to move for me, but it was made easier because my family was beginning to cut me off for being queer anyway and I had the privilege of WFH too. I know lots of people who'd move out of their region if not for their family supporting them in some way they can't get elsewhere (or they don't think so, atleast).

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm the same as you, but I recognise that I had the privilege of being born in the capital of a very centralised country so there's little reason for me to move to better my lot. If I'd grown up in a deprived former mining town up north I'd probably have been long gone as soon as I could.

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