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I'm sure a good number of us have lived on those terms for varying lengths of time. Especially most people in England, particularly before say, you got teh skills and design jobs - poverty like that is a way of life for millions of people in a way that not as high a proportion of Americans realise. You eat chips from the chip shop, walk home from the supermarket, get the bus, drink booze at home and watch the tv.
In America there's a threshold you need to reach that will support your health insurance payments and operating a car for a good deal of the day. Without the ability to walk to your walk, and around town to do your shit - which most Americans can't really do, then you're literally a few minutes away from landing smack on your ass in a whole heap of trouble. In England the slope to outright misery is somewhat less steep and easier to negotiate. Living in the US is more like scaling a cliff. Quick way to get very high if you're lucky and you know what you're doing. Take a slip or have a hand-hold give way on you and you're falling fast and landing on jagged rocks.- *walk to your workmikotondria3
- Can be different downtown in proper city, but for most people their world is only navigable by car.mikotondria3
- Really makes you appreciate the NHS. totally skint, but been in hospital 4 times this month.kingsteven
- twice for CT scans, all freeeeekingsteven