You make good points, but refer to my post 21. "...when they think that where they are is where they will always be, it is."
Last I heard, there are even places in this country where you don't have to pay car insurance. (New Hampshire and Wisconsin? I am not the human almanac in our house but I think that's right; plus Alabama isn't burdensome, and maybe Tennessee...) Also, if you don't want to pay more than the legally required amount of insurance and your record is good, you probably won't pay more than $20 a month for car insurance. Ask your agent.
Yep, and the welfare crowd has been told by their politicians for decades that they could never survive without the governments help.
Beets - they'll be lucky if they get beets and lard from the government to eat this time.
Have asked my agent, and shopped around. I have two old cars since we live far from any bus line, and my daughter (away at school) and I both work. Total tab = $175 with excellent driving records. Much is dependent on your zip code, but I’m told this is a very very good sum for a family with a 20-year-old. I don’t think anybody is going to move a thousand miles away, at enormous expense, just to have lower car insurance rates.
The point is, we have expenses today that many people did not have 75 years ago. Our lives are constructed around the concept that people should be dependent on infrastructure, (having electricity and running water, for instance) and now that the real estate market has collapsed, they can’t escape. Many would not have the moxie to farm, hunt, fish, etc. even if they could get away from the ‘burbs.