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In reply to the discussion: TrumpCare May Lead to Massive Internal Migrations. [View all]janterry
(4,429 posts)I moved from FL to VT (just bought a house a few weeks ago).
I did it to ensure that I'd have adequate healthcare. If VT proves unable to do this, I'll cross the border to Massachusetts and buy a home there.
But keep in mind - I'm able to do this because I have some money at my disposal. When we were poor, which was just a short time ago (I mean really poor - food insecure poor) - we couldn't have moved. It was too hard.
Most of the poor in FL (in those small towns that no one ever visits) will stay right where they are because that is where they are from. Their parents, grandparents and children are from there and 'stay' there. The really, really poor of this county will stay in their red states and do what Faulkner would have called 'endure.' They will accept this as another kick in the teeth from a power that they can neither control nor influence.