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Re:An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty by JoeAltmaier on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:54PM (#9489135)
All those poor people in rural Africa just stay there. Why don't they just move?

Its got to do with being comfortable with your place in society, and feeling safe to have some position at all. Its risky to leap into a new place, with new rules.

Turn it on its head: would you move to a poor, rural area? Why not? Partly because you wouldn't know how to survive there.

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Re:An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty by markvdb on Monday May 04, 2015 @06:13PM (#9489585)
Poor people in rural Africa do move... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/thousands-migra...
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Re:An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty by cowsandmilk on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:28PM (#9489929)
fleeing war and persecution is different than moving due to poverty.
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Re:An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty by paulhauggis on Monday May 04, 2015 @08:26PM (#9490179)
"All those poor people in rural Africa just stay there. Why don't they just move?"

The government is also to blame in places like Africa. How can you expect to leave or even prosper when government officials, who are supposed to protect you, are nothing more than criminals?

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