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<ul class="summary-list"><li>After six years of living in <keyword id="11940480" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="los-angeles" source="Orion">Los Angeles</keyword> with two young children, my family decided to move to a small town.</li><li>Having our kids grow up near their grandparents was very important for all of us. </li></ul>"This place is alive," I thought as I stepped out of the car at 11 p.m. in a southern Illinois town of 5,000 people.In August 2015, my family left Los Angeles, which was alive with busy freeways and bustling restaurants. But this small community was alive with the <a href="https://www.insider.com/biggest-differences-between-living-in-new-york-city-maine-2021-9">sound of crickets, owls, and blowing trees</a>. It was <a href="https://www.insider.com/i-moved-my-children-to-a-remote-island-in-alaska-2021-12">literally alive</a>.My husband and I spent years contemplating staying in Southern California, <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-much-it-costs-to-raise-a-family-in-los-angeles-2017-2">with its high cost of living</a>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/worst-things-about-living-in-los-angeles-2018-11">hit-or-miss public schools</a>, and distance from family — we spent thousands of dollars flying back and forth to the Midwest to visit them. At a certain point, it became unrealistic for us to keep chasing what we thought was our dream. <h2>L.A. has a lot to offer, but we weren't doing much</h2>We lived in L.A. for six years and loved the cultural diversity, the endless places to explore, and my husband especially loved the idea of being able to surf the Pacific in the morning and ski down Mt. Baldy in the afternoon. I, too, liked the idea of having outdoor adventures, Disneyland, and the beach nearby to visit with the kids. But even though we lived 20 miles from some of these wonders, it could take hours to arrive.At times, it felt like we were imprisoned in paradise. We were close enough to have the allure but practically couldn't drive anywhere between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. Then we'd need to head home before 2 p.m., otherwise we'd be stuck in hours of horrendous traffic.One of the more traumatic days of my life was after a single-parenting attempt at Disneyland. We missed the 2 p.m. "avoid traffic" deadline and left at 2:45. We sat in traffic for hours. My children, a 2 -year-old and 6-month-old, were strapped in their car seats, helplessly screaming hard enough to blow their vocal cords and my sanity.<h2>We couldn't afford the life our children deserved</h2>The cost of living added financial stress that made us wonder how we could afford to stay long term and how everyone else seemed to make it work. The financial benefit of staying included a soaring appreciation of home values. But leaving meant we could use that lofty down payment on more stable and cash-flowing investments. The real kicker was our stage of life. We had two small children in an apartment with no yard and our families 30 driving hours away. After losing one of our parents unexpectedly, we wanted our kids and parents to have rich experiences with one another during this precious phase. My husband found a work-from-home job, and I was able to start a master's degree with the support of my parents nearby. We do miss the friendships and fascinating people we became close to in L.A., the pop-up opportunities to sit in on a movie screening, and the impressive hiking. My daughter says she wants to be a ballerina and an actress, and sometimes I wonder if we moved from the right place to the wrong place for her dreams. The emotions of leaving on that one-way flight were exhausting. Change is not easy. But we are enjoying the novelties of the Midwest, like hanging with live pigs at the farm store, hosting baby goats in our yard, and visiting the local creamery, where we eat lots of artisan cheese and ice cream. We get to share the four seasons of thunderstorm watching, snowball fights, the flowering of spring, and pontoon-boat rides in the summer. And, of course, grandma and grandpa's love goes a long way.

After 6 years in Los Angeles, I moved my family to a 5,000-person town in Illinois. We can now afford the life our children deserve.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A pizzeria in <keyword id="11922327" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="chicago" source="Orion">Chicago</keyword> couldn't open on Sunday because of short-staffing, costing it $5,000, its owner said.</li><li>The owner of Coalfire Pizza said some staff had quit for higher-paid <keyword id="11899183" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jobs" source="Orion">jobs</keyword> at larger restaurants.</li></ul>A pizzeria in Chicago couldn't open on Sunday because it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/3-reasons-for-labor-shortage-according-to-biden-labor-secretary-2021-10">didn't have enough staff</a>, and the owner told <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/10/19/west-town-chicago-pizzeria-could-not-open-labor-shortage/">CBS Chicago</a> that it cost him about $5,000."We are closed today. I simply do not have enough people to open," Dave Bonomi, the owner of Coalfire Pizza in West Town, <a href="https://twitter.com/CoalfireChicago/status/1449771418158313484?s=20">tweeted</a> on Sunday. "In nearly 15 years of selling pizza, this has never happened."Bonomi told CBS that he was struggling to find new employees during the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-st-louis-missouri-restaurant-closed-staff-employment-hiring-2021-10">labor shortage</a>, and had to close the pizzeria after two staffers had called in sick. He told <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/10/18/coalfire-pizza-in-west-town-closes-temporarily-because-of-staffing-shortages/?fbclid=IwAR1xRDnkHrvrhwzFPnqqVE0R5A6atqhcYLN7rCTZ3ANDMjA6Fsh9ssSAq_o">Block Club Chicago</a> that job applicants <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-employees-no-show-interview-business-hiring-employment-jobs-2021-9">weren't showing up for interviews</a>.People were avoiding jobs in the <keyword id="11898236" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="restaurant" source="Orion">restaurant</keyword> industry because of its reputation for toxic <keyword id="11896063" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="work" source="Orion">work</keyword> environments, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kfc-worker-injured-harassed-by-anti-maskers-revealing-dangers-2021-3">harassment from customers</a>, challenging work, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-texas-restaurant-closed-poached-staff-jobs-work-employment-2021-9">low pay</a>, he said.Some of Coalfire's staff had quit for higher-paid jobs at larger restaurant groups and hotels, too, Bonomi added. Coalfire had boosted its starting salary for cooks with little to no prior experience from $15 to $18 an hour, he said.Staff also got paid time off and overtime pay, and were able to enroll in a health plan with half the costs covered by the company, he said.Independent restaurants say they <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-independent-restaurants-jobs-wages-employment-unemployment-work-hiring-2021-10">struggle to compete with bigger companies</a> on wages and benefits.Businesses across the US are suffering from a huge <keyword id="11908404" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="labor-shortage" source="Orion">labor shortage</keyword>, making it harder for them to find last-minute cover when their staff are ill.Other restaurants have had to close with little notice after suddenly finding themselves short-staffed, such as a Pennsylvania chicken restaurant that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-pennsylvania-restaurant-raised-menu-prices-employment-food-chicken-2021-9">closed for a day</a> and a Georgia burrito restaurant that temporarily cut its opening hours after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-georgia-restaurant-staff-quit-macon-work-jobs-employment-2021-9">its entire staff quit</a>.Americans are quitting their jobs in search of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-georgia-restaurant-staff-quit-macon-work-jobs-employment-2021-9">better wages, benefits, and working conditions</a>. Rising cases of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pandemic-not-unemployment-keeps-workers-home-jobs-report-2021-9">Delta variant of COVID-19</a> are also deterring some people from applying for jobs.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/great-resignation-labor-shortage-workers-thinking-about-quitting-joblist-report-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">The hospitality industry has been hit especially hard</a>, with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/restaurant-hotel-workers-hospitality-food-service-jolts-quit-rate-august-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">workers quitting jobs in the accommodation and food-services sector at twice the national average rate</a>.Bonomi told Block Club Chicago that Coalfire, which also has a pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview, had been "running on fumes" for a few years with a skeleton staff. He said that the staffing problems had gotten worse during the pandemic, and that the pizzeria had barely enough staff to stay open.Bonomi said a surge of people who had been laid off from higher-paying restaurant jobs had applied to work at Coalfire at the start of the pandemic, but that this had stopped.Now, huge numbers of Coalfire's job applicants <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-employees-no-show-interview-business-hiring-employment-jobs-2021-9">aren't even turning up for interviews</a>, he said.This was "like nothing I've ever seen," Bonomi said.Do you work in the restaurant industry? Got a story? Email this reporter at gdean@insider.com. Always use a nonwork email.Expanded Coverage Module: what-is-the-labor-shortage-and-how-long-will-it-last

A Chicago pizzeria said it temporarily closed because of the labor shortage, costing it $5,000. Its owner said job applicants weren't turning up to interviews.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A new study compares <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases in <keyword id="3046" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Iowa">Iowa</keyword>, which never imposed a <keyword id="8985184" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stay-at-home">stay-at-home</keyword> order, to cases in Illinois, where officials implemented a swift <keyword id="91743" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdown">lockdown</keyword>.</li><li>The researchers concluded that a stay-at-home order might have prevented around 30% of cases in Iowa's border counties from March 21 to April 20. </li><li>Illinois's lockdown, meanwhile, likely helped limit infections in the state.</li></ul>Iowa is one of the five US states that never imposed a statewide stay-at-home order. A new study suggests it probably should have.The research <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2766229">compares daily coronavirus cases</a> across eight counties in Iowa to the numbers in seven counties in Illinois, where officials swiftly issued a lockdown. The counties all sit along the border between the two states. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show that cases continued to climb in both states following the Illinois stay-at-home order, but rose more quickly in the Iowa counties. The researchers concluded that the lockdown may have helped limit infections in Illinois — and that Iowa could have benefited from the same policy.An estimated 30% of cases in Iowa border counties could have been prevented by a stay-at-home order, the researchers calculated.<h2>Iowa counties reported more daily infections</h2>Border comparisons are one of the best ways to determine the effects of a policy change, since neighboring counties tend to share many of the same demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.Illinois's <a href="https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/coronavirus/Resources/Pages/ExecutiveOrders.aspx">stay-at-home order went into place</a> at 5 p.m. on March 21, though the state had already shut down bars and restaurants on March 15 and closed schools two days after that. Prior to the statewide shutdown, border counties in Iowa and Illinois had about the same number of coronavirus cases relative to their population sizes: less than one daily case per 10,000 residents.Illinois's order included a directive to prohibit gatherings larger than 10 people and close all playgrounds, state parks, and nonessential businesses.Iowa, by contrast, never ordered residents to stay home and was slower to roll out other restrictive measures. The state banned large gatherings and closed bars and restaurants on March 17. Nine days later, it closed some nonessential businesses like dental offices, barbershops, and clothing stores. Iowa recommended that all primary and secondary schools close on March 15, but didn't officially impose the restriction until April 2. By April 6, some additional businesses like malls, museums, and libraries closed as well.Gov. Kim Reynolds said these measures were essentially "equivalent" to Illinois's stay-at-home order."A lot of the things that we've already implemented are included in the shelter-in-place orders that states are putting in place," Reynolds said at a <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> conference on March 25. "What's the benefit from taking that additional step?"But the new study found that one month after the Illinois lockdown, border counties in that state were reporting around 10 daily cases per 10,000 residents. Iowa counties, meanwhile, were reporting more than 15 daily cases per 10,000 residents. The researchers determined that Iowa counties saw an excess of 217 infections during that time period.One complicating factor in this data, however, is the fact that Illinois ramped up coronavirus testing following its stay-at-home order. Before March 21, both Iowa and Illinois were testing at about the same rate (less than 20 tests per 10,000 residents). By April 20, Illinois was conducting 117 tests per 10,000 residents compared to 82 tests per 10,000 residents in Iowa. The more a state tests, the more likely it is to identify infections. But the researchers determined that Iowa's slower testing rate likely did not influence their study's results (unless county-level testing rates were dramatically different from those at the state level). <h2>Stay-at-home measures come at a price </h2><div type="image" title="chicago lockdown" height="2000" width="3000" msid="75871209" hostid="261"></div>Similar research has determined that lockdowns <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-lockdowns-successful-evidence-from-around-the-world-2020-4">helped reduce coronavirus transmission in China and Italy</a>. An <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w26992.pdf">April working paper</a> also found that California's shelter-in-place order (the first in the US) resulted in nearly 50,000 fewer infections and prevented more than 1,600 deaths from March 19 to April 20."Social distancing provided by the lockdowns has clearly slowed the spread of the virus," <a href="https://www.covid-datascience.com/">Jeffrey Morris</a>, director of the biostatistics division at the University of Pennsylvania, recently told Business Insider. But he added that total lockdowns — including school shutdowns, non-essential business closures, and stay-at-home orders — "tend to be an overreach from what is necessary to confer protection."Indeed, the study of California's outbreak found that reducing <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> cases there came at a painful cost: For every life saved during that month, around 400 people lost their jobs.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-lockdown-compared-to-iowa-reduced-coronavirus-cases-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Illinois imposed a swift lockdown, while Iowa never ordered residents to stay home. A comparison of bordering counties reveals the price Iowa paid.

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After 6 years in Los Angeles, I moved my family to a 5,000-person town in Illinois. We can now afford the life our children deserve.

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A Chicago pizzeria said it temporarily closed because of the labor shortage, costing it $5,000. Its owner said job applicants weren't turning up to interviews.

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Illinois imposed a swift lockdown, while Iowa never ordered residents to stay home. A comparison of bordering counties reveals the price Iowa paid.

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