Same. I watch friends in red states reply to these comments and explain why moving often isn’t possible and why it’s wrong to expect other people to casually abandon their homes, sometimes of generations, and how hurtful it is to say this! And somehow OP never learns. It’s a heartbreaking exercise.
Red states are serious gravity wells. As someone who fled red>blue, the biggest challenge was stretching my low red wages to a blue state with a much higher cost of living. Higher wages came after, but didn’t resolve that initial leap.
