As for people having to leave their communities, where their roots are--having to abandon cultural heritages, which in many instances go back for many generations? That is not an acceptable solution in a land where many of the original settlements were motivated by people who desired a particular cultural path--often Faith motivated.
As for hardships? Consider the hardships of those who originally built some of those communities in a wilderness.
The arrogance of those who would dismiss other Americans' ties to particular American heritages, as something trivial to be easily abandoned, is rather offensive. It of course fits in nicely with crack-pots like Bill Kristol's indifference to American values.
Excellent observations on our current troubles. When you divorce culture, heritage & family from the marketplace people become interchangeable parts....that’s how nations die, look toward the European Union.
If there is no work, they need to move. It is really that simple. Millions move to find work or to follow their job. We have phones and facetime and skype and airplanes now. They can move, but they choose to stay behind in a dying community filled with drugs and tons of welfare fraud. Bravo for you wishing them to rot.