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Re:City residents live with mental illness at higher rates t... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:23PM (#19922230)
You can totally live somewhere rural and support yourself and a family. There's just less opportunity to make easy money there so it will be harder.

If your optimizing for least effort for a given income level moving to the city is a no-brainer since it's where all the easy money is.

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Re:City residents live with mental illness at higher rates t... by magduf on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:26PM (#19923388)
>You can totally live somewhere rural and support yourself and a family.

You can say that about literally anywhere. It's a matter of how doable it is, and how much effort it'll be, versus the reward, compared to just going somewhere else. The simple fact is that there's far fewer jobs in rural areas, and also there's far, far fewer good-paying jobs.

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