By average not by extremes. I think a few years ago a UN Special Report revealed startling examples of extreme poverty in several places in the USA.
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A couple of decades ago I was driving around New Mexico sightseeing and drove into a reservation. The poverty I saw hits really hard even now
A couple of years ago my wife was driving through New Mexico on a cross-country road trip (I had to fly due to another work trip bookending the vacation) and a truck fire forced a detour through Albuquerque, and she said the poverty she saw on the little bit of Albuquerque they drove through was insane. Described seeing presumably homeless people high out of their minds in the street, and other homeless people shooting up. And still others painfully sober and aware of their situation
Housing insecurity truly exhibits itself very differently in different places. Where we live it's not folks living in worn out tents or ramshackle shelters built from trash, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist
Damn welfare queens the lot of them.
lol. I got the fuck out of there finally. Sink FL, Sink!
Nooooo I can't leave until next summer. Stay up for a little longer Florida!
Just get to whichever blue state you're able to afford to get to. It might be CO. Poverty is a policy choice. People want to bitch and moan about property costs in CO but I'd happily pay those costs under a presumption that I'll sooner or later have some equity out of those costs.
In FL, a huge chunk of your COL is insurance and power bills. The power company feeds like 20% of their income into GOP election campaigns. You literally need to leave the state in order for Republicans to lose their campaign finances.
Hopefully some more drought for one and flooding for the other will thin the herd a bit in the coming months and years.