alt Hacker NewsIf you’re genuinely that poor, moving is cheap. Abandon the implied worthless property, catch a greyhound out of town. Total cost: bus ticket, a few days of living expenses on the road.
Someone below the poverty line would/should be renting. If they do happen to own dirt, an empty lot is an instant $7K or more in their pocket, perfect starting funds for a rental somewhere else. If they own a place, a minimum $40K covers a year’s expenses to get established elsewhere. Values via Zillow.
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If you’re genuinely poor then moving is cheap when viewed by someone who isn’t poor.
Moving as a renter isn’t free. You’ll need to come up with a security deposit and coming up with two months of rent at once is not easy. Your slumlord landlord is going to keep your old one regardless of merit or law, so don’t think you can use that money. Convincing a new landlord that you’re a good risk is also not going to be easy when you’ve just moved and don’t have a job, so you’re looking at spending on a hotel for a while unless you’re lucky enough to know someone well enough to couch surf.
Move with what money? And go where? If they have property, sell to who, exactly? "Instant" lol.
Gently, you talk like someone who's never even been broke, let alone been poor.
> If you’re genuinely that poor, moving is cheap. Abandon the implied worthless property, catch a greyhound out of town.
When you're genuinely poor, your local community is a critical survival tool that can't be discarded. You've spent your whole life building a set of relationships through mutual help. When your car dies and you can't afford to go to a mechanic, you have a friend of a friend who can fix cars who owes you one since you helped replace his fence a few years back. That kind of thing, but every day, in a hundred ways.
Throwing that out to move to a city where you have nothing is a great way to end up homeless.