Why It's More Expensive To Be Poor

Very funny to see a map of Vienna, Austria, with trader joes, Ralph's and whole foods kilometers apart when that city has in reality a very high density of grocery stores. Like if there is a city that does not know what a food desert is, it's Vienna

My family used to be homeless and we only really got out of it because we had extended family, I can’t imagine how hard it must be for those alone, I’m lucky I was a child I thought we were on a vacation 😅. I’ll always be grateful to my family no one deserves to “live” like this, because it’s not living it’s surviving.

This is the truth. It’s very costly to be in poor in usa.

boy this cheered me up

Thank you for telling us the straight truth.

CREDIT UNIONS are better than BANKS!

Everything costs more because it was all molested by human trafficking child molesters more than everything else

You should put the questions in the description or the comments

No, it doesn't. It costs more not to plan ahead and have a budget

The uninsured pay the most for medical services. They are the only ones who are not getting a “discount” on the the ridiculously high “retail” price of medicines and medical services.
I was once sued by a private hospital and immediately dragged through debtors exam upon their award of judgment against me.
I eventually went to a state hospital, after trying to perform surgery on myself, and got better and more knowledgeable care there to stop a MRSA infection that was spreading around my body and starting to get into my bones.
The drawback with the state hospital was that unpaid bills went to the attorney general’s office for collection with a statute of limitations of 40 years!
It is critical that low income people become familiar with their state’s “exemption from seizure” limits so that they know what can and what cannot be taken from them to satisfy a debt.

Golly how lucky I was. We were not poor but we lived way below our means so that we could have college.

An alternative title would be "Dumb people make themselves poor through poor decision making".

My recent rent deposit was a grand! I freaked out! I had no choice but to pay it since at my last place my car got stolen.

I had to take out a loan to cover it. That's not counting the prorated rent I had to pay on top of that deposit. I didn't tell my parents about the loan because they have supported me all my life and I refuse to be a burden on them when they're close to retirement. So, I sacrificed and I paid the loan off. It took me almost 5 months to knock it out.

Meanwhile, I've spent most of 2025 being a social recluse since going out is expensive. I eat one big meal a day and allow myself one "pleasure purchase" every pay day (like a new book or a video game). I feel so hopeless these days, however.

I feel like I will always be poor.

"very few have an understanding of what real poverty looks like", guess again retards

Theres a thing called credit unions that dont charge a fee and direct deposit. Anyone from poor to rich can get a bank account.

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