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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by Jtsummers on Friday December 25, 2015 @11:52AM (#10791615)
The problem is not being near family. It's being near family and working in the fields that we want, or for pay that can support our own families the way we want to. I couldn't get a job paying better than $60k a year in the town my parents live in as a programmer. And there are so few I'd be lucky to get even that.
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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by furfish on Friday December 25, 2015 @12:06PM (#10791645)
It was the same for me. Where I'm from I'd have been very lucky to have made the equivalent of 20k USD per year as a programmer and there were/are very few positions available.
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