[Senator_Blutarski]

This is a good reason to live in a place that has a harsh climate for much of the year. You really have to want to live in a place like the northern Great Plains, so I imagine they don’t get too many useless misfits and professional malcontents migrating there.

You are wrong. Minnesota and Wisconsin (of which I have knowledge) are welfare magnets. Small rural midwestern towns have been attracting Section 8 housing recipients for years. We have the rising crime rates and deteriorating schools to prove it.

[VanShuyten]

My hometown in Iowa built some small Sec 8, filled it with Chicago locals, and then suffered buyer’s remorse.

They quickly moved their Sec 8 housing money to individual units in apartment buildings designed for elderly and/or handicapped tenants. Those tenants have more expensive needs, but don’t victimize their neighbors, and the apartments meet HUD’s housing rules for money.

[Alberta's Child]

That’s because those state governments implement policies designed to turn welfare migration into an industry. The Twin Cities area declined considerably after Illinois adopted their own version of welfare reform in the early 1990s.