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Old 07-12-2021, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Babubhat View Post
I agree. No place else I would rather live. I don’t understand why people are unhappy here. They can just move. Life is too short to suffer. You have a choice
Not everyone is financially able to "just move." Some people come here thinking this will be perfect for them - and discover it isn't at all what they were expecting. So they stay anyway because they can't afford to do anything else, have no other place to go, and they're too old to just pack up and set out for the great unknown, hoping they don't run out of money for food before they find an affordable, liveable destination elsewhere.

Some people come here with their significant other, and enjoy their lives here as a couple but as soon as one of them dies, the other feels lost and unable to enjoy this happy lifestyle anymore. But they can't afford to move, so they're stuck here. And they feel just as stuck as they are.

You can accept that you're not capable of understanding this dilemma, or you can pretend the dilemma doesn't exist.

But it exists, and being dismissive of anything that doesn't fit your narrative is - dismissive.