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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5919384" data-attributes="member: 24302">A lot of people do.  I did.  A lot of people don't want to leave their hometown.  Here's a scenario.  You have four generations of coal miners.  Mine gets shutdown.  All your family is in the area.  Your friends.  Your home you inherited is owned.  What do you do, take a bath selling your home in a town where the biggest economic driver has gone away?  Or do you work at FedEx Ground?  McDonald's?  It's really easy for others to say go uproot your whole life and move somewhere else.  Move out of your house.  Move into an apartment.  Start all over at 42.  For many they'd rather hang on to what is home to them.  More money isn't always the driving factor.</blockquote>