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Originally posted by Mobycat:
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Originally posted by Desert_Rat:
[b]A factory closure shouldn't be a source of permanent poverty if its workers are resilient and have an instinct to survive rather than staying in the same old town wallowing in self pity.

The ambitious and the intelligent will always find success. It's more character than circumstance.
Never been to the rust belt, have you?[/b]
I've lived there. Notice I don't anymore. It's also exactly the reason I don't live in Wyoming anymore, a place I loved. I had a choice. Work shit hourly jobs there or pack up and go where there was opportunity. I came to Arizona with everything I owned in the back of a 5x8 Uhaul trailer and started with nothing. I do pretty well now.

Yasha, perhaps you should watch the news and see what's happening in your old country. Look at what Putin is trying to return it to.