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| ▲ | Broken_Hippo 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| If someone is having to choose between power and medication, how could they get the money to move to this place?? They won't. Most folks aren't really that mobile and being poor makes this more likely. I'll also note that I live in such a place. Heck, I don't have air conditioning at all. But if I don't have heat in the winter, I'll die. It's cold out. Not many place have the luxury of not needing heating nor cooling - and even when some folks can go without, not all buildings are fit for that purpose. 2 windows on one side of an apartment doesn't make for good ventilation. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > how could they get the money to move to this place Maybe we give it to them? They're very likely on subsidized income anyway, it's a one time cost and drop in the bucket to move them to someplace more affordable. | | |
| ▲ | el_benhameen 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Have you ever met a senior? For most people, the world shrinks as they age: it’s harder to learn new routines, figure out how to do things, etc. just popping them out of a place where they have family, services, and routines into an entirely new place is a recipe for disaster. | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Well, let them swelter or go without their meds then? If they have so much family and support around, why are they struggling to pay for the AC? | | |
| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 3 days ago | parent [-] | | > If they have so much family and support around I think you're inventing stuff to say. The article said: "There's a lot of seniors down here that are living
check to check.
They can barely afford prescriptions such as myself,"
The people in poverty aren't the ones with the power here. The ones with the power are public officials, utility executives and voting shareholders. Their decisions drive how much more electricity costs than it needs to.Dozens of millions of Americans are poor because they're poor. People work hard with what they have and for some it works out well and for some it doesn't. That's reality. |
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| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Maybe we give it to them? Established funding sources tend to have long lines of applicants. Past that, if it's public funds, the rising political force is fiercely opposed to this - mostly for ideological reasons that are disconnected from actual outcomes. |
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| ▲ | ZeroGravitas 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Americans generally pay more for heating than cooling so moving to warmer climates helps on that axis. There might be a sweet spot before you get to the warmest place in the country but it probably still involves air con. |
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| ▲ | derwiki 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not that my parents are in this situation, but they’ve lived in the same state for 80 years and the same house for 55. I don’t know if they’d be able to handle a move. |
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| ▲ | supertrope 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Like San Francisco which is so affordable. |
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| ▲ | BeFlatXIII 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| …and who pays the upfront moving costs? |
