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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4917543" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>Related to southern states being poor, my grandfather was from Mississippi, and he moved up near chicago when he started a family for better job opportunities and higher pay, but he never liked it up here and as soon as he could, he retired from the steel mills and he moved back there.&nbsp;&nbsp; But all his children and grandchildren stayed near chicago.&nbsp; So he would always try to get us to move to Mississippi, and I seriously thought about it when I was a young adult,&nbsp; I liked certain aspects of Mississippi, plus our family has a lot of land, and I thought I could build a house on that land, but what I quickly realized there were zero jobs, or only very low paying jobs.&nbsp; There was a Nissan plant like 75 miles away from where my grandfather lived and it paid terrible at least back when I was looking at it.&nbsp; It became very clear that the people in Mississippi on average are much poorer than in Illinois and that&#039;s not because the people in Illinois are better, but because you have a real chance to make some money which is why my grandfather came here in the first place.&nbsp; I like certain aspects of Mississippi, but man is it economically poor.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4917543, member: 66082"] Related to southern states being poor, my grandfather was from Mississippi, and he moved up near chicago when he started a family for better job opportunities and higher pay, but he never liked it up here and as soon as he could, he retired from the steel mills and he moved back there. But all his children and grandchildren stayed near chicago. So he would always try to get us to move to Mississippi, and I seriously thought about it when I was a young adult, I liked certain aspects of Mississippi, plus our family has a lot of land, and I thought I could build a house on that land, but what I quickly realized there were zero jobs, or only very low paying jobs. There was a Nissan plant like 75 miles away from where my grandfather lived and it paid terrible at least back when I was looking at it. It became very clear that the people in Mississippi on average are much poorer than in Illinois and that's not because the people in Illinois are better, but because you have a real chance to make some money which is why my grandfather came here in the first place. I like certain aspects of Mississippi, but man is it economically poor. [/QUOTE]

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