Telling Rural People To Move Won’t Solve Poverty

[RINO Tom]

And there's the fact that (I assume) many if not most people in rural areas don't have the resources to move.

The average rural person can afford to move, rural areas aren’t that poor. Impoverished rural people like those described in the article probably cannot afford to move, so you are correct there. Plus many people don’t want to move. Many people have connections to their communities and land that is real and admirable.

I don't know what to say other than that this is a good post.

I disagree with this. Regardless of economics, America ought to move around more. I grew up in a town like this--it was an insular, ignorant old-boys club. Every community could use a bit more rootless cosmopolitanism.

Do you think poor minorities stuck in the inner cities' failing school systems "really should just move already"?

[RINO Tom]

I think this forum really overestimates how "poor" rural areas are, quality-of-life speaking.  There are a lot of people in Iowa City - a vibrant college town - that "make more" than most in the poorer town of Keokuk in SE Iowa ... but a lot of those "poorer" people in Keokuk enjoy dirt cheap drinks at their favorite bars, boating on the Mississippi River with their friends and a decent sized house for comparatively cheap.  Your taste and preference is that living in Keokuk would be boring as hell and absolutely terrible?  So what?  LOL, joke's on you!