Sometimes you do have to make a choice, you choose to shop at walmart because you can stretch your cash and I don't have a problem with that, you need to take care of your family and yourself. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps is not crap, it is an attitude, if I did not think this way I would have laid down dead years ago. In 1987 I had an accident that left me paralyzed and wheelchair bound for the rest of my life. A good attitude is the ONLY thing that keeps me going. And no some people will NEVER leave Lynn, I still have friends who live in Lynn who will never leave and that is not by their choice(more disabled than myself and can not persue and education or employment). There is also the other side of the coin, those that could better their lives and don't and I know some  these people up close and personal and they are comfortable where they are at. That just wasn't me.

FYI, grew up in West Peabody (Russell St.)and Everett.