I went the other direction and then back.
Where I lived in Idaho, one just couldn't earn what I wanted to earn.  After I burned out of the Corporate world, I moved back to a rural area where my investments would go further.

Yes, we did move when the cost of living in our area was outrageously high. It doesn't seem strange to me. Wages have not kept up with inflation and the cost of housing in most cities is absurd. Working two or three jobs to make ends meet is just crazy.

I tend not to use technology often because I feel like in some ways it takes you away from the real world

I turned the keys to our house over to the bank on Christmas Eve of 2012.

My wife and I were both highly skilled professionals with a strong work ethic. It wasn't anything like the American dream we had been sold all of our lives.

I wrote a post yesterday about the Reality Behind the "Economic Recovery" (I won't link it here, you can find it easily enough).

My post was inspired by our experience and an article I had read about the "working homeless" just like you're talking about. We must have just been on the leading edge of this tidal wave of "economic recovery."

My son had to move back in for a year when his room mates got jobs and had to move across the country just so they had a income to support themselves. He was in school and working full time and still could not handle the rent by himself for just him.

I learned something new today.  I had never heard of Internet Café Refugees.  At least Japan has provided one solution to homelessness and being out on the street. There are so many countries where there is NO solution at all.

Your examples were men, living alone.  You do not mention if similar spaces exist for women or families.

One thing is clear, losing one's well paying job and being forced into homelessness, or living in sub-standard conditions is not necessarily indicative of being uneducated, unskilled, or lazy. And these conditions exist in every country, some more than others.

From what I see, there are many reasons for conditions like these.  Companies downsize and creat circumstances that force employees out, with no unemployment benefits - like one of your examples.  For small business owners, unfair competition coupled with marginal to no profits push closures.  A host of other circumstances, too many to name, cause people to be unemployed with little to no source of income.

Solutions from governmental agencies are not forthcoming. Legislators in every country, especially in the United States, are determined to make as many laws as possible to feed the privatized and extremely lucrative prison system.  The laws combined with other negative aspects of racism, sexism, and classism cause excessive law enforcement activity as well as excessive court judgments that ruin so many people's lives for the rest of their lives. In many case their destruction of a healthy workforce begins when people are at a young age.

Also, there appears to be a targeted plan to reduce the overall workforce, to stifle and punish innovative thinkers, and overall to stifle competition from up and coming small business owners; in order to concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a very few.  And, on the local level there are many tools utilized to interfere with and sabotage people's efforts to improve their lives.  These homeless, semi-homeless, and inadequate housing  conditions are not happenstance, not coincidence, and often not the undoing by the individual.

I see the Blockchain use as solving some of these obstacles.  With it, more and more people will have direct contact with a customer base, so one's own abilities and work will result in direct payment.  Without having to get acceptance from and depend on an employer, without having to endure costly business fees, more people can become entrepreneurs and have more independence to earn in a free market.  More free markets create more income, resulting in the ability to afford suitable housing.

Of course, it is not an all-encompassing solution for everyone; however, it offers opportunities for economic improvements for individuals who would not otherwise have it.

I applaud you for bringing forth a little known issue.  Sharing information is the beginning of bringing about change.  I upvote your post.

how MUCH of the high cost of living where you are is due to government regulation?  Zoning comes to mind.

some time ago a snowflake wrote a letter to the editor of one of the newspapers here.
She complained about the high cost of living. She complained that it wasn't fair. She lamented that she  was a GOOD citizen..she voted FOR all the bonds, and the tax increases to improve the infrastructure. She whined that NOW her taxes had gone up so much that she couldn't afford to live in her small 'bungalow' downtown..the property taxes were outrageous.   

I searched for it just now but couldn't find it. At the time I thought that it was ironic.

(I'm being polite)

It's like a game of Monopoly where whoever's winning gets to change the rules. 
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Yes! I emigrated in Cambodia because as a white woman and western, I have an easier life here than in Italy, where I would need recommendation to find a job. Even with a full time job, taxes are so heavy and the extension of age pension became exagerated that Italy does not offer la dolce vita of 40 years ago. 
Technology is causing and will cause massive social and economical problems. It is making humans economically unworthy. We won't be employable, 95% of us will become very poor and not able to buy anything and the economy will collapse.

It is sad but it is a generalized reality, for economic reasons I left my home before I was 14 years old, living alone was very complicated, I lived in a street situation on several occasions, although it is also learned to be strong before the adversities of the lifetime.
my province is one of the poorest in the country, there are few sources of work, it is very common to see migrate adolescents, my children Brenda and Ivan had to migrate to Ushuaia in search of a better future.
Excellent post dear friend @denmarkguy, thank you very much for the opportunity to express ourselves
I wish you a wonderful weekend