I am from Kentucky and I am NOT illiterate.

[Jamastiene]

105. Tell you what...

Give up every penny you have. Move to a town where Walmart is the major employer there. Even if you get a degree at the community college, you can't use it for employment because those jobs are not in your area. Work at minimum wage in the south for a while, pay the rent, power bills, groceries, gas, water, etc. Then tell me how someone in the south can "just move."

When you've done all that and figured it out, please share it with the rest of us. I want to see how you do when an entire month's pay in a town like mine wouldn't even cover the groceries in a more expensive larger "civilized" city, much less a security deposit, much less rent or the cost to move or getting electricity hooked up, etc. Even the closest bigger cities would take months to save up for just the security deposit and first month's rent and that is if you are able to save every dime you make and don't have to pay rent to stay where you are now. It is not as easy as you seem to think it is. Nowhere near as easy as you seem to think.

While I am at it, how do you pick a place to live other than where you grew up, completely away from your family? Do you just throw darts at a map of the US until you hit a town that doesn't seem too bad? Or what? They make rednecks in northeastern states too, you know. They make them out west too. How DO you decide where to move just to get away from stereotypes? Can you name a single town anywhere in the US that doesn't have bigots who stereotype people? I got news for you, if you can, you weren't paying attention.

Or, people could just quit assuming they know what it is like in some areas of the country based on their own ignorance and snobbery, and bother to get to know a few people. You know, educate themselves and quit being ignorant snobs who stereotype people.