Upscale wrote:
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$4/gal gasoline and overcrowded highways, it becomes a BIG problem.

Half-smart people will move to where they can afford to live *and*
work.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Family, housing prices or rental
costs and even health issues can come into play. I'm forced to remain
within quick travelling distance of some large metropolitan hospital
for health reasons. I'd love to move to some smaller town with its
small town atmosphere, but for me, it's not to be. ~ Not if I want to
stay healthy enough to enjoy life to some degree.

Know what you mean. I live seven, count 'em, seven blocks from a hospital.
This hospital has a Class I Emergency Room and Trauma Center. On the campus
are two eleven-story professional buildings full of thoracic surgeons,
Oncologists, and just about every medical specialty known to man, with the
possible exception of tropical diseases and eleemosynary specialists.