During the aftermath of Katrina, I talked to someone who asked a family if they wanted to live for free in a house in Kansas City until things got turned around in N.O.
They declined, it was “too cold” there.
We opened up a camp here in SW Va. No takers at all. Too cold. But the church that owned the camp cleaned up in donations.
They want a free place to stay and a free check every month just like they had in the Big Easy. They’ll run a little something on the side to make spending money. That don’t play well in the Appalachian hills unless you are selling moonshine or redneck crack or Oxy.