By Matt Levin, Cal Matters, November 8, 2019
Nancy Rich wants to go back home.
It’s not just the longer commute that’s wearing on her. Rich, 65, drives an hour each way from her one bedroom apartment in Marysville to her job in the mailroom at the Chico Enterprise-Record newspaper. She works a full swing shift, meaning she doesn’t get home until about 3 a.m.
It’s not just the annoying bathroom leak, which she has to keep stuffed with bath towels, or the rumors of car break-ins and burglaries she hears from her neighbors.
“It gets very lonely,” said Rich, a grandmother of eight. “I don’t know anybody in Marysville, that’s the biggest thing. Everyone here has been polite, but it’s just not home.”
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