Wow. Yeah, because of what happened here the last year, there is a dearth of homes under 200K. Apparently, still a lot are available for over 350K. Same as near you, the median income is very low, but retirees from everywhere else can still buy. New homeowners are practically out of luck. There is very little non-service industry here. Even Slim-Fast manufacturing only lasted a year or so; I'm not sure how much longer these prices can rise... thank goodness I got my fixer-upper a few years ago.
Yeah.
The usual job in my area is retail.
And the usual amount of time anyone lasts at said retail job is three months or less depending upon when they'd have to start providing company benefits.
In other words, you work three months and then get laid off.
And they hire someone else, and do the same thing to them.
Keeps the company's bottom line up due to cutting out the paying out of any benefit packages.
Not illegal, and they have perfect cover to do it as they can claim unsatisfactory job performance.