My family has never left their hometown for 3 generations and refuses to leave, they have nothing keeping them except excuses and fear of unknown. It's becoming quite a hell hole. IMO there is no fixing it. It's been on a steady decline for a century. Quality is rapidly declining, getting more dangerous by the day, vacant homes or unkempt rentals, school/property taxes climbing by 2%/year some years where schools are "too dangerous" to send your kids too. City school districts keep closing and forcing the surrounding areas to compensate, locals pay taxes to bus kids from cities with condemned schools to suburban schools. The state requires private schools take on some of these students and add it as a line item to private student tuition. I'm just trying to get them out before it gets too dangerous and property values plummet.

Chances are I will be moving somewhere else on my own in the next couple years (likely far from family to start my own family I hope) someplace less dystopian. Haven't decided yet.