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" If she's already earning $2000 she can find a job with slightly higher pay."
Oh, sure, people can just definitely arbitrarily find a job that'll give them a more than ten percent raise with no countervailing drawbacks whenever they want.
You can't look at a family like this and say the problem is their selfishness. The non-disabled adult works in an exhausting job for peanuts and they live within their means as best they can, turning down rents they can't afford. You'd be happy to condemn them if they did otherwise, but even that's not good enough for you. You're just determined to hate poor people no matter what they do, to convince yourself you could never be one of them. Newsflash: you're a few strokes of bad luck from being one of them yourself. Almost all of us are. I will never understand the serf mentality on here, people eager to condemn the poor and kneel down in front of the rich.
(There's clearly more than one "Abbas Chouman" in the tri-state area, if you google.)
Wow. Where is all this coming from? I didn’t attack them just doubt their story.
But I do disagree with your comments as well: Anyone can find a better job that pays more if they 1. Look for it and 2. Take up a new skill.
I once applied for a new job within my own company and received a raise of about 15K. But I had to take up a new skill. A 200 dollar difference is nothing.
The man is obviously in that hole because that’s where he wants to be.
There's two sides to everything, so let's look at things another way.
Yes, those three teens could find work (well two, the one already does have a part time job), but then what happens when they go away to college or otherwise move out. If the adults start depending on their kids to make up that $200 difference, what happens later when the kids are gone?
RS rents only go one way; up. Every year or other they will be paying more in rent. The husband is disabled, and while that never stopped many from working, it is illegal and could end up backfiring.
Know both singles and couples that an extra $200 each month for *anything* would be a scramble. Heck have several friends who are really are for all practical purposes straight up busted after paying rent. They've got a bit of cash until next money comes in with a good number relying on CC to cover things until then.
We don't know how much (if anything) the husband gets in disability payments. But the wife's salary of "about" $2k means there is only $800 left after deducting rent. Probably less because am going with gross not net; after payroll taxes that $2k per month is much less.
Maybe the LL/managing agent for that small building on West 29th is more lenient about late rent (they must be nice to have all five adults living in that small studio which surely is all kinds of illegal or something), as opposed to the management of The Max (building they turned down lottery apartment). The latter probably is like most large buildings, they run their stuff correct, and if rent is late there are consequences and repercussions.
You are right about that. I was wondering that when watching. But the one son who wants to go to college mentions wanting to get a better job so they can all live in a better environment. From that, my guess is the parents will depend on the children (as many do, unfortunately, and they don't think about the hardship of bringing a child into the world).
I had a job from 14-16. I earned more than $200 a month back then and I'm 30 now. Trust me, kids can find work. It builds character.
I tried getting an afterschool job when I was 15-16, nobody would hire me because I was too young, the only place I could get a job was through the city's summer youth employment program. Only when I started college, and did not have the restrictions high schoolers had, was I able to get a part-time job. This was in the late 70s.
i call bs on the story. that literally makes NO SENSE. I could see if the studio was less than $1000.
sorry to say but if you can't afford to stay in Manhattan EVEN THROUGH AFFORDABLE HOUSING, then get out!
also surprised their landlord hasn't tried to evict them for overcrowding or smthg..
I tried getting an afterschool job when I was 15-16, nobody would hire me because I was too young, the only place I could get a job was through the city's summer youth employment program. Only when I started college, and did not have the restrictions high schoolers had, was I able to get a part-time job. This was in the late 70s.
Oh man. Same here. I started with a Summer Youth Employment job at 16 and thanks to that i was able to get a retail job and then i went from there.
How is it not normal to live in a studio if you have kids? I don't understand. My friend's home looks like. Her mom also has a roommate.
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