Originally Posted by Mark Rapier

If the people in the town left and moved elsewhere the mine owner would have to change the compensation he was offering to entice workers to operate his business and make a profit. No one and no family is required to stay someplace where the can't survive and prosper, in fact the mobility of the population has been one of the most consistent phenomena in our country's history.

That's one of the reasons that the founding fathers in authoring and approving the COTUS included the Privileges and Immunities Clause in Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1, and the SCOTUS has in numerous subsequent cases decreed "right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them."