I should caveat that everything I’m talking about is in the context of urban housing for people not in poverty; rural rental markets and housing for the poor look very different. (If you want a depressing read, check out Desmond’s Evicted—basically, once you’ve been evicted due to nonpayment no reasonable and honest landlord wants to rent to you again, which leaves you with increasingly terrible choices.)

But yeah, I think of moving as something fairly normal—annoying, sure, and something you might complain to your friends about, but then, so is dental work.