I'm from WV. My wife is from eastern KY. We decided to move to PA when we were in our early 20's. We stayed 2 years before we moved to about 15 miles north of NYC. We're both the first to attend college. We both earned AAS degrees. Our child was the first to earn a BS degree last May in the family. We have done well, we're solid middle class people, 10-12 years frim retirement. We have 11 years left of mortgage payments, butwe'd like to be done in.
Family we left behind literally live in shacks and trailers. I doubt I have a relative that earns more than $8 per hour down there.
They were so happy when Trump won. Now they arebegging harder than ever or trying to find a wah up go a blue state for the oportunities ghat will never exisg in WV or KY. Yel, skme are coal miners, or perhaps theh did it for a year or two in the 1980's, around the tkme we bailed and got educated. We don'tfeell bad for them. Is that wrong? N
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