Not that anything's wrong with that...
You're right, and I have little sympathy myself for people who made unwise investments who thought they were getting into a get-rich-quick scheme. But even if you manage your affairs prudently, when several houses on your street are abandoned, taken over by the homeless or converted to meth labs and crack houses, or inhabited by people with cars on blocks in their yards, refrigerators on their porches and couches on their lawns, its tough to have lost the option to move.