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Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 14th, '17, 15:31
by LittleJulez
But I can totally relate to that!
All the best !
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 14th, '17, 20:17
by WishingMoon
Happy today everything has worked out and I work half day tomorrow and full day Thursday and Friday. Yey
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 14th, '17, 23:47
by Sanssouci
I wasn't far from being homeless after college either. I was living in a trailer with no heat, no hot water, and a hole in the wall big enough for stray cats to come in. And New York winters are very harsh!
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 15th, '17, 00:01
by WishingMoon
Colorado is bad too. I'm lucky to live with my mom but unlucky because she threatens to kick me out at any given time. If she is in a mood I could lose everything in a blink of an eye.
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 15th, '17, 00:31
by Sanssouci
I live with my partner. We've been living together for 11 years, and it's still going good. But it is scary to think that I have nothing that's actually mine. If anything happened to him, I would be even worse off than I was in that trailer.
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 15th, '17, 00:38
by WishingMoon
I totally get that. It is that thought, that I can't support myself, that makes me go "get me the fuck out of here!"
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 15th, '17, 10:29
by LittleJulez
Oh my, I am sorry to hear that, both your situations sound difficult!
This sounds like there is no financial support for the less lucky ones in the US?
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 15th, '17, 16:02
by Sanssouci
There is some financial support. But it's kind of confusing, and there is a lot of paperwork, and a lot of hoops to jump through, and you often have to go somewhere in person and wait in line all day just to hope to be seen, and I never learned to drive, and a lot of people get declined, and some people are embarrassed to ask for it... Or, at least that's how it used to be. So a lot of the people who needed it the most didn't get it...
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 16th, '17, 00:34
by WishingMoon
Unless financial support is willing to pay for housing there is little help to be had you know?
Re: 2017 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 16th, '17, 02:33
by Sanssouci
What I really need right now is health care. I tried to sign up on the government website, but it said I would have to pay at least $300 a month, and I had to pay $10,000 before it would kick in, and it hardly covered anything at all... It didn't cover so much that I honestly can't imagine what it would cover...