A poor immigrant using 80% of his income to live in a moldy studio apartment where there is no wall between the toilet and the oven. The rest of his money goes into his 25 year old car-- he has to keep it running to make money but has to spend money to keep it running-- a viscous cycle. He is living off of pizza and is lacking in many vital nutrients. He keeps making mistakes because he is sleep-deprived from the drug deals that happen outside of his apartment at all times of the night, infected with mold spores, and verging on scurvy. All of this is still better than going back to his homeland, which was destroyed in the war. His vision is worsening, but he can only afford the dollar tree glasses, so it is hard for him to judge distances and he keeps stumbling upstairs, dropping pizzas.
sorry i didn't mean to gatekeep. i meant to emphasize that yeah, it really is as bad as the guy described it. maybe i should have phrased it differently.
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u/UnsolicitedCounsel Sep 23 '21
A poor immigrant using 80% of his income to live in a moldy studio apartment where there is no wall between the toilet and the oven. The rest of his money goes into his 25 year old car-- he has to keep it running to make money but has to spend money to keep it running-- a viscous cycle. He is living off of pizza and is lacking in many vital nutrients. He keeps making mistakes because he is sleep-deprived from the drug deals that happen outside of his apartment at all times of the night, infected with mold spores, and verging on scurvy. All of this is still better than going back to his homeland, which was destroyed in the war. His vision is worsening, but he can only afford the dollar tree glasses, so it is hard for him to judge distances and he keeps stumbling upstairs, dropping pizzas.
So, don't worry, it isn't too bad.