Doing what? In upstate New York there is not much going on.
This is where you tell me they should move to where the work is. Well, if everyone did that there would be no more suburban areas because all of the unemployed would have to move to big cities to find work. That's where the work is. Just pack up and move. Just like Tom Joad, right? I can't wait to see what a truly transient society looks like.
We expect the Irqis to be optimistic? Golly, we are a bunch of crybabies.
Ah, how about America? Like, leaving Europe. Or moving to the Ohio valley. Or west of the Mississippi. Or California, or bust?
Most of my family works for a textile mill. SC used to be full of them but of course one is closing after another. One family member lost his mill job last year and is incredibly bitter.
I suggested that he move because the town is dead. There is no work. Most people live there but work in other counties now. You would've thought that I had said move to Mars or that his mother was ugly. I had to change to subject and left the room quickly.
He's still back in Union, still angry. He's living off his wife's paycheck from Walmart and is getting fat and drinking too much beer. If he had left for NC or Atlanta last year he might be in better shape. As it is now, his kids are miserable and his wife is eyeing the back door and her suitcase. I don't want this country to turn into a mass of Tom Joads but sometimes you gotta go where the money is.