[FRIAM] What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - The Atlantic

[Steven A Smith]

While the world has seen many mass migrations forced by economics (and 
climate), I doubt it has ever been a "pretty picture" either for those 
forced to migrate or those forced to receive them. Certainly the 
indigenous people of North (and to a lesser extent South) America got 
quite the shock as Europe flooded the "New World" with it's disaffected 
as well as it's fortune-seekers.

In the intra-continental migrations during/after the industrial 
revolution (as subsistence farmers became coal miners, and then their 
children moved to the rust belt, etc.)  people often arrived "too many, 
too late".   I suspect the dustbowl/depression had a lot of that.  
People chasing rainbows across the country only to discover that "the 
good jobs" were gone by the time they got there.   I see that in my 
children's generation in their educational/vocational choices... getting 
a big fat education to meet the opportunities/needs WE saw for them in 
the 90's only to find that they demands shifted out from under them.

I've been seeing the very whimsical advertisements on Hulu for 
Monster.com where a giant purple-cookie-monster-like-being punches out 
the windows of a shoddy office building to grab a "sweet young office 
worker" and transport her (king-kong-like) to a crisp/clean hirise 
office build where he leaves her at her new desk with her new office 
mates only mildly surprised.   I wonder if this isn't too close to the 
reality of our current job market, even for entry-level 
professionals...  feeling that helpless and capricious about job prospects.

With our efforts at SFx to support "the Gig Economy", I got a good taste 
of how complicated supporting creatives in Santa Fe really is.   Now, 
the same with trying to help create and hold high tech work in the 
area.    Housing is a significant but not singular component.   Many of 
us where here (and some probably profited) during the housing boom of 
the 90s when developers/builders managed to change the anti-development 
climate of the county in such a way as to open up rampant 
(over?)building.  For the most part, I don't think it helped the lower 
end of the economic spectrum of the county/city.

- Steve
> Pertinent to this morning's discussion.
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> The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs
> https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/geographic-mobility-and-housing/542439/ 
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