Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
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Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#2Staggeringly good piece, and should be required reading for anyone on HN.
Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#3Staggeringly good piece, and should be required reading for anyone on HN.
Your comment enticed me to read much of it. A moving piece - a bit long - but insightful.
Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#4I know these people. Some are family. I live in the Cinci metro. This article illustrates the reality of life for what I think is most of the country. They are constantly on the edge of financial ruin. Living everyday under that kind of stress is hard and hard to watch.
Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#5Staggeringly good piece, and should be required reading for anyone on HN.
Excited to read this. Their piece on heroin won a pulitzer last year: https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-...
Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#6I know these people. Some are family. I live in the Cinci metro. This article illustrates the reality of life for what I think is most of the country. They are constantly on the edge of financial ruin. Living everyday under that kind of stress is hard and hard to watch.
Definitely sounds like Wisconsin. I was reading the whole time thinking, man, things must be exactly the same everywhere?
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#7I grew up here. Cincinnati is a place full of really hard working people who care about family and have a lot of pride.
The comment about the father not wanting to accept aid because he is too proud hurts because my family was the same way. I didn't get basic medical or dental care until college unless I was taken to the ER. There were many nights we went hungry and many times we had to sleep on grandma's floor because we had nowhere else to go. I do wish that families would discard their pride with regards to helping their children and accept as much aid as possible to ensure that they are healthy and prepared for the future.
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#8Sadly not available in the eu...
Re: Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
#9I grew up in Cincinnati. I finished college at the start of the Great Recession. As career opportunities in Tech were (at the time) nonexistent there, I couldn’t find a future for me in Cincy. I moved away in 2009 to Chicago; and then to San Francisco 5 years later. I feel a little bit guilty for leaving my childhood friends and family behind to move on with my aspirations.
It’s been hard to listen to my parents complain about how terrible the region has become; yet I am grateful for their continued encouragement to pursue my own goals - even if elsewhere.
It’s easy to say “why don’t they move?”
It’s a question I bring up all the time to myself. As it turns out, it is really hard to relocate an entire family once roots are put down - my aging grandparents, my sisters and their families, my fathers’ business, and my mothers‘ career in commercial banking all anchor them to Cincinnati.
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#10I didn't grow up in the Cinncinnati area specifically but Akron, OH is not that far away. The stories are similar. These are hard working, friendly and virtuous people that grew up on values that if you worked hard good things will happen.
However, it's not turning out to be the case any longer. I am so grateful and luckily to have found my way into computers at a young age. I really feel for my neighbors and family who are in similar situations.
I grew up in this place and I feel very proud to call it my home, I left it years ago but it's a special place.
It's hard to describe this feeling to anyone that didn't grow up in the rustbelt. It's so easy to take for granted the things you have and the money you made in our tech bubble. Outside of it there are many real people facing insurmountable odds to make ends meet with limited options for themselves.
I try to keep these things in mind whenever I think I'm having a bad day.