Just jumping in for a bit here...
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Originally Posted by Lady Sage
you cant rent a moving van without money, you cant put a down payment or a deposit without money. You cant pay rent or a mortgage without money. You cant heat your home without money. If you dont have it you dont have it and you will do what you can with what you have.
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I agree. NCB, I study migration for a living, and I can tell you right now that it's not the poorest of the poor who immigrate... not from Europe 80 years ago, and not from Mexico right now. The poorest of the poor CANNOT AFFORD to move, period. They simply lack the financial capital to pick up and go that far.
The only other option for the poorest of the poor to move is if they have some kind of social capital... networks, basically, that will enable them somehow to move to other places where they might know someone, and who can give them a loan for a while until they get on their feet. Even social capital, though, is worth something... and a lot of people don't even have that. And for them, their options ARE limited.
Choice is not equally accessible for all humans on this earth; it is very unequally distributed, and persists over generations. Structural conditions impose limits on EVERYone, especially so on those who lack access to financial and social capital.