Yeah but that's not even true. It's cheap to live here and employers pay well, with lots of available work. Maybe in whatever area you live it's rough but it's pretty easy to thrive with very little education in the cities, I'm not sure why you think that someone's money would now be worthless, it's the polar opposite as your cost of living is going to be lower. I'm not sure what has you saying drug use is higher than anywhere else though, quick look at various studies show it's about on par with the rest of the US. As far as people wanting to leave, I don't know many but the ones that do are generally people that don't apply themselves to anything and have a mindset that the reason their life is shit is everyone's fault but their own. Sadly yes, we are a red state due to gerrymandering but that's not a problem that can be solved by turning away intelligent people who are capable of shifting the imbalance. Do keep vocalizing the issue with this though because we need more attention brought to conservative corruption here, and good things are coming of it as we recently had some of them get locked up with sentences that weren't a bullshit slap on the wrist which is cool