Same here. High Plains poor, oil camps. Then dad decided he wanted to move to the Ozarks for some reason. A place he had never lived.
boy did it teach him a lesson! We went from poor to destitute! My brother and I, later as adults, fled poverty only when we moved somewhere else.
I went to school with other kids that were just as poor, if not worse, so it wasn’t so bad, but there were well off kids who always had new clothes, new shoes, etc. so we knew there as a better life for some who would just not accept their present position as normal.
It was a time before Mississippi had compulsive education, so I knew some kids that had never seen the inside of a school house, so were doomed to poverty for the rest of their lives..................