UK is Fucked
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- PhanLo0
Painting in public often has strange interactions with allsorts of people, over the weekend, I chatted to loads of passers by but towards the end of the sunday night two Polish guys were hanging out, one is a graffiti writer, who's been out of work as a painter and decorator for a while since he broke his leg and his mate said he made trap music.
They both floated in that street drinking weed smoking style, that is mellow enough but I got chatting to them about their living situation, they were sort of homeless, but in edinburgh, there is very few truly homeless people, there's a lot of services that help people so very few people sleep rough.These guys have been staying in B&B's and I found it insane to hear the rent was £400 a week for a room and a shared bathroom, this was in houses with sometimes ten residents.
So the landlord was pulling £20,000 a month from people who were pretty desperate and they had curfews.The trap music guy had got a flat but it seemed such a deliberately confusing process of getting it all sorted out, he was saying it was quite overwhelming.
I had been in the sun all day and managed to get mild heatstroke so had to apologise as my migraine made me vomit out my triple chicken sandwich at full velocity.
The graffiti guy disappeared and I was left hanging out with the trap guy who had a box full of cd's and clothes he'd found in the street. The housing estate he stayed in was miles away so I ended up giving him a lift home.
Made me feel grateful that I have somewhat of a more stable life.
TWENTY FUCKING GRAND A MONTH!
- The B&B thing came in during covid, but has been going on before that, good little deal for the slumlordsPhanLo
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