[quote=SK in CV]
BG, do you think maybe the possibility exists that living in an old farmhouse with 11 other people isn’t their first choice in how to live? Maybe, if their employer paid them 25% more, there would be much less turnover, they’d save recruiting and training costs, and their employees wouldn’t have to live 12 people to a house..[/quote]

Hard to say if that is their first choice, but we know for sure that living with 11 other people in CO farmhouse definitely ranks above the standard of living where they came from.
Nobody force marched them to CO.
It is a set of rational people making rational choices, they are dealt a bad hand in life and by their place of birth and they are making the best of the set of choices available to them.

Maybe if their employer paid 25% more, they’d buy more Tequila or bling or send some via western union back home. What makes you think they will move out to say 8/farmhouse just because the wages went up?