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- plash0
i just finished this .. wow.. what UX. really drives the point.
- mikotondria30
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
- boat0
It seemed like I had an unlucky month. Car troubles, tooth issues, heart attack backpack. I'm not dismissing the issue, I grew up below the poverty line, but why couldn't I catch the bus?
Anybody else think the phone call was extra creepy? That's why I hung up.
- dragonfruit0
copy / pasting the typing test worked, i made it through the month !
- utopian0
well done
- moldero0
nice
- VikingKingEleven0
those numbers are highly skewed.
- $30 for laundry?? it's like 2 dollars a load, max!CanHasQBN
- duhsign0
also I paid for car insurance but when I had the fender bender in the parking lot my only options were to drive away or to pay 500 bucks, I paid and went bankrupt. fail.
cool idea tho
- duhsign0
fail. in the grocery one I picked all the healthy choices and it said look at your cart and you can see why obesity is a huge problem...oops.
- PonyBoy0
i can't beat the damned typing test...
- dbloc0
The actual Durham website looks super dated though.
- dbloc0
Very Nice! Well Executed.
- seeessess0
Very nice, and thought provoking. Stop taking everything for granted people, this could be you one day.
- Boz0
I meant amazing execution and amazing way of getting to the point..
- missus_dita0
I wouldn't choose the word amazing but very worrying! I don't live in the states but I feel for those folk who live under the breadline must be really tough. Just shows how lucky some of us are and we should appreciate things more and give more. But a very interesting site indeed.
- Boz
Just amazing!
http://playspent.org/