Surviving below poverty line in France
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In France, 19% of 18-29 years olds have standard of living below the poverty line, Cleo is one of them.
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In france this is poverty, in a lot of countries this is the middle class.
This is not poverty in France, this is precariousness.
I confirm it would classify as middle class in Poland :’)
Yes, this is classified as a middle class in the Philippines
Even in Indonesia this is middle class
yes for second and third world countries.
I feel her pain, I also left my parents, lived in a tent for a while while working odd jobs. 12 years later, I have a small farmland near the city. I am still amazed I was able to buy this land. Stay strong lady.
Respect. Gives us hope that nothing is lost forever.
Teach me howwwww X_X
Same case here : I expect a lot from my farmland
@@salmonie Sure mate. I worked as a janitor, a house painter, a streetsweeper, a grass cutter, a fruit picker, a fisherman, a fruit picker and other odd jobs. Jobs that requires only your willingness to do it. I check the internet for local jobs near me and there usually would be work aplenty. If there's none, I ride my bicycle in town and visit my previous customers if then require help. When there is no job, I search for typing or data entry jobs online.
I usually pick part time jobs that pays when you finish them or one time jobs since I don't like working for too long in a day. Might be because I have ADHD because I get irritable and cranky if I work longer than 4 hours or I'm just really lazy.
I'm frugal but I make sure to treat myself twice a week by going to the beach, chasing after women, spa, mountain climbing, running, cycling, etc.
I've searched online for the cheapest land that I could buy near me. When I found it, I deposited some money to it. I've computed that if I earn by some amount monthly, it would take me 10 or so years to pay for it. I did that and that's what happened.
Today, I just sell my farm produce to the local market and just pay for my internet bills and health insurance and nothing else. For electricity, I go solar. For water I built 2 small ponds in my backyard, added 2 water filters in them so that the water would be cycled between the two of them and then just fill the pond with underground water if needed. For food, potatoes, eggs, veggies and small berries.
I recommend everyone in getting farmlands if they can, no matter how small as it could be as long as you can plant potatoes and tend some chickens. As long as there is no nuclear winter or war, the land will provide food for you.
Good luck everyone.
great for you but this wouldn't be possible today
I know her pain and struggles. I lived below poverty line in France for all of my childhood and my situation was even WORSE. My parents and I lived in a run-down appartment with pretty much nothing in it... We would sleep on a blanket on the floor, we couldn't afford furnitures nor electrical appliances, I would wear the same clothes to school every 2 days, etc. One of my fondest memories was when my parents finally acquired a small fridge (I was about 14 then). Human beings can adapt to anything and you get used to having very little, but one thing I could never get used to is the SHAME. The shame of being really poor in a developped country and the anxiety when trying to hide it to your friends. Really tough times.
When l was living in Armenia we also were poor and didn't have a fridge nor TV. My parents still can't afford a fridge. And l myself after living 22 years separately from my parents in Ukraine left everything and moved to France. I am confused how many homeless and poor people live here.
It sucks that these days the absolute most expensive way to eat is, ironically, locally and in season organic vegetables from your area. You can eat poison if you're poor but you want anything non poisonous then just forget about it peasant
how can you be poor in france? i really don't get it
@@JoaoPcamarg0 poverty has never stopped increasing in France since the 80s and it's even worse now because of inflation and de-industrialisation. Millions of people live in extreme poverty, mostly immigrants I'd assume but also French natives
@@JosephDavidBen unfortunately, this is a global phenomenon and it is going to be worse. De- -industrialization is an international obstacle since industries moved their businesses to other countries with lower taxes etc, and inflation is becoming a nightmare even for the strongest economies.
We have reached a point where we must vote very wisely, with the common good in mind.
Peace and Love to all human beings!
I worked for the food bank in Berlin for a year, in the logistics team, and the number of customers increased by like 20k in the time I worked there. Times are really rough! But I can tell from experience - the food banks are not something to be ashamed to go to. We work our asses off to get good quality food to you, we sort through tonnes of veggies and fruit everyday to insure customers only get the best stuff! We also save good food from being thrown away. Some people even pay to get crooked almost expired fruit to feel better about themselves! It's not hand-downs, it's just making the most of edible food! We had the best shit, sometimes even luxury skin care. We do our best. Please don't be ashamed to come to us!
fnb ftw
Your work is wonderful! Thank you!
thank you so much for your hard work to provide good food for those in need!
It sucks that these days the absolute most expensive way to eat is, ironically, locally and in season organic vegetables from your area. You can eat poison if you're poor but you want anything non poisonous then just forget about it peasant
for me you are superheroes. I am a doctor, but couldnt compare my skills to your level of love and empathy. Thank you for existing.
damn, poverty line in france is an average student life in my country (mexico), i'd really love for all jobless people to have this quality of life, life and death on the streets is something so harsh to watch
True , in india its like more than avg life .
Same here as well. When I read the title I thought the conditions would be really bad like not having sufficient food to eat , no electricity or access to clean water, living in unsanitary conditions but her life seems quite comfortable. And to top it all she also seems to be getting financial help as well. It seems like poor for France is a like a privileged life in my country.
Eso pensaba, que distinta es la pobreza en otros países, acá en argentina el que que está por debajo de la línea de pobreza vive entre 4 chapas y en las villas, lugares muy sucios y con mucha delincuencia y narcotráfico en los últimos años, no se compara con esto, pero tampoco se romantiza como vive la chica
same here in south east asia. if this is how the define poverty then I dont know what kind poverty Im witnessing in my country.
all French students are poor.
That is not poverty, that is unemployment. She doesn't work for the most part, but still has a place to stay with her own room, money for cigs (of course), booze, occasional nights out and still complains that she cannot travel. Most people in other countries (and that's really majority) has to work their ass off to get even close to that standard of living.
100% agree. I mean she a is a young healthy woman. She can work. But instead she complains
absolutely
@@LifeandotherI was about to write about it. There is a construction site across the road from her window - she should go there and ask for work. I doubt she's gonna be declined an opportunity.
Must be nice to be in poverty and have money to shop at the store, have a nice phone, a good room.. She has a place nicer than the room I pay 180 dollars a week for 0_o
People come to work in France from all the countries of Eastern Europe. Where a foreigner can earn 1000, 1500 EUR, locals will earn more. There are factories, warehouses, shops. She speaks French. She seems healthy. She doesn't seem like an alcoholic in the worst meaning. I don't even know if they can hire a citizen for 12 hours jobs, so she could work 8, 10 hours and earn for living. 27 years? If you showed me a 18 year old I'd pity him. She just doesn't care for opportunities.
I’m italian, but I have family in France because my uncle married a french woman when he went there to find a job. She is now my aunt, and when I went to France to visit them, she told me a similiar story to this lady’s one. Before she met my uncle she got despised by her family because she ended up pregnant. The moment they found out that, they abandoned her, and she became homeless. When my cousin was born, she started to steal from supermarkets in France so they both would be able to eat. That was her situation when she met my uncle, who was literally just a poor italian migrating to find fortune elsewhere. At that time, i don’t think there were any social funds for people living under the poverty line. Still, my uncle started working as a plumber and she became a babysitter. To this day, my aunt’s family doesn’t talk to her. She told me that it doesn’t bother her as it did at the time. Now they have 2 more daughters which are the cousins I’m the closest with, despite the distance. My uncle and her have been together for almost 30 years now, and she still loves him like day 1. I’m sure they ended up together because they shared this frustrating feeling of constant worrying as poor youngsters. But it does get better. So I wish to everyone living in such hard conditions a not so worrying future, with enough money to feel comfortable in this society too. You are not alone
Thank you for sharing this. It is really sad to hear but at least it ended up well.
This is inspiring and there is à good lesson to learn here.
Your anty was pregnant 😭 by her previous boyfriend. Why your uncle married her?
@@psychospecialist2440 because it’s love and it shouldn’t matter. I would marry a woman I feel deeply in love with despise her pregnancy with another man.
@@psychospecialist2440 she had had the baby by then. They have lasted 30 years not many people can say the same.
@@joejohn524 lol i wouldnt thats called being a cuckold no reason to not raise my own genetics
In most of Asia, this is classified as Middle Class. People here can easily overcome the difficulties because in Asia we live with our families & we have strong family bonding.
Not every country in asia is poor its just southern asian countries like india,pakistan and the likewise
Living with family in Europe is seen as shameful.
@@優さん-n7m we all asians would be broke af if this was a norm in our culture.
@@harshitheya well what can I see, European people have a superiority complex too you know.
@@user-ue4fh5mv9s Most of Asian countries are poor. Not that poor like Africa or Latin America. Middle class would be more precise & that's what I wrote in my comment. Poor in Europe is equal to middle class in most of Asia. Living conditions in Japan, South Korea or some Arab countries can be compared to Europe but they don't represent the majority of Asian people.
Sending love. As a young poor American, I totally relate. Spending money on snacks and drinks isn't a waste of money when you are this poor, it's a necessity for feeling human.
I don't know about that... I was broke as Hell and preferred to save while eating tuna alongside my cat. Gotta have priorities. For example, she's moving in with grandparents to save money to buy a gas guzzling truck.
she don t even try to really work, on his declaration, we can show that she work less than 2 mounth during 1 year, her priority are not good, she rather do party than found job, in France we have actually 2 million vacant job for the restoration i am shur that she did not even try, and her priority is to buy a truck to travel in ???? That is not serious, she cry because she do not have a good situation, but do not even try to improve it
You're living in the country of opportunity. I don't want to hurt, but poverty is your own choice. I hope you will get a good job soon. Life is not made to be easy, we can blame others for our mistakes, but it wouldn't change anything.
@@corentinjamet5610 that's rude, she doesn't cry, she explain imo. She lives a situation only shown in a short video, we don't see the whole thing and we are not in her boots.
@@corentinjamet5610 Qu'est-ce que tu racontes, on a que 354 700 emplois vacants au 1er trimestre 2022 (source : dares)
I left my home when I was 19 and was lucky to rent a small apartment that my coworker’s husband built above their garage. I only paid $600 a month and they were kind enough to never raise my rent for six years. During that time I had to be super careful with what I spent, never bought new stuff for myself, didn’t go out to socialize if it meant spending money, since I had to pay my own my way through college. Eventually I was able to save up to buy a house after another 6 years. Your situation can change just keep pushing.
You are amazing ! 👏is
only $600. ,,ONLY" ! I don't pay $600 to live above a garage. They scammed yo ass.
May be 60 dollar a month or 600 currency that has lower value than dollar o think
@@Chonstantin I don’t think u understand that rent is just higher in some places
@@Chonstantin Not sure where you live but rent is different in different parts of the world. Even in America, depending if you live in a city or not. Rent during that time for a 1 bedroom apartment was over $1200 (10 years ago) I live in Seattle, USA. Not sure where you live but there was no way I would have been able to get $600 rent without living somewhere dangerous in Seattle. And my landlord was a builder so he basically made a beautiful tiny house on his property. So I definitely did not feel scammed.
I came from Serbia, now I'm living in USA. This conditions are normal in Serbia for most people, even close to some middle class. Average salaries in Serbia are around 500euros. But the difference is that in Serbia we have really close family ties. Many grown up children stay in their houses with parents and when you have 2 or 3 salaries per house than it can be good.
Exactly us from eastern europe and asians as well we stay with our parents and idk why thats a shame in western countries and furthermore what am I surprised with is the fact that the countries that we got to whether thats usa canada or western europe all ve more opportunities then we do and somehow most of us manage to get a job why cant these ppl who were born there do the same?
@@tkokflux6322 I wouldn’t say it’s a shame. Its a shame when you can work and decide to ask money from parents when you are 30 instead of work, but it’s not a shame to live with parents.
@@khrystynahrynkevych7440 i mean yeah ofc that was implied in my comment
I mean you realise that 500 euros in Serbia and in France is not nearly equivalent, France is one of the most expensive countries in europe
@ Mateo K. I know about that but now i'm in the USA and trust me, prices of food, phone, electricity and heating are almost equal to prices in Serbia. In fact Gasoline is even much cheaper than in Serbia. The only thing that is much expensive is rent and health insurance but health system is also far more better here in USA. Here I'm spending pretty much the same amount of money on food. Prices of clothes are more or less the same. Some things are even cheaper. Shoes, sneakers are cheaper here. At the end, when I'm calculate everything, yes it is overall more expensive here in USA to live but salary is much higher and I'm managing to save a bit more than in Serbia and also I have better life quality
I'm middle poor class and I relate to her so much. Sometimes I feel that In not allowed to have fun because I'm poor. Im relieve to have classmates that go through the same situation because we support each other. One day someone invites me, the other day I invite them and sometimes we buy one meal to share and that's a whole new level of friendship.
Personally when I feel sad I get myself some fruit or a snack, and that lifts me up even if it's once a week, I enjoy it deeply.
Same with me, I love sweets and make up but I always feel guilty everytime I buy one item of those things, I always think that I must save the money to buy real food in others day
Man one thing about these developed countries is the definition of poverty and what it is like is entirely different as opposed to third world countries. In a country like India if a family or a person is living below poverty line then things are very rough and if that family or a person happens to live in abject poverty then almost no one would bat an eye to care whether you are dead or alive and many a times people go to sleep(not bed) on empty stomach. Some die out of contracting various diseases from infection by living in such horrible conditions. Many youths have become conscious of this persisting problem and have gone out of their way to help the ones in need,even dedicating their whole life for the cause but that still amounts close to nothing compared to how gargantuan the problem is. I also like the way people in developed countries are able to understand what they are going through and are articulate enough to talk about their problems,in a way that they haven't lost their discerning ability to understand the gravity of their situation. I understand it's different,the way poverty and abject poverty is perceived in societies out there and it might be even different in 4th world countries and what is a horrible living conditions for one might be a good and a better life in the lens of another and vice versa.
Well poverty in india today is different than before independence. During the British rule, the poor had no protection and literally I could run you over with my car and no one would say anything.
Congratulations, you just discovered what relativity is. Hope you can use your brain better now.
yea right this video is just average person on third world countries, but considered below the poverty line in rich countries
Nope in India the government helps and provide free ration and pension for below poverty line..India is cheapest country to live in.Indian women are hard workers but due to lack of education and restrictions only educated gets good job...India has affordable medical care but problem is that family spend a lot of money for festival, marriages and on other customs which land them to financial crisis.. Addicted to alcohol has also ruined families in India pushing in to poverty. Indians are kind and they help eachother especially in slums and in rural areas
@@rickymartin7042 don't defend and justify the ills of india, india has one of the worst hunger indices in the world
I don't know what would have happened to me had I not been given a job in construction when I was younger. Best of luck to anyone going through troubled times.
She cant be in poverty if she has pets 🙄
@@FA9082 homeless people have pets too. Are they not in poverty? You flop
@Kevin Souza Her amount of poverty is laughable when compared to my country whose currency sucks ass and the really poor ones did not even have a bed to sleep on.
U are not useless u build infrastructure... hahaahha guess where all those women studies idiots are right now.
"saying best of luck" does not accomplish anything.
Wow, this is poverty in France. In Southeast Asian countries this is middle class and we don't get €500 from government. No work, no money. No wonder people are doing whatever they can to go to Europe.
I work in south Italy for 600€ in a month, i live with my mother becouse i can't pay an house and the taxes, the taxes are very hight like 500€ in a month and an house 500 for a monolocal, so its difficult work only for pay taxes. I Hope the situation Will changes this politics are try to destroy people
Well there are people here that take 700 or 800€ of Money without go to work its an help from the europea state, but you have to live alone for have It, I prefer go to work, than have this Money without do anythink
@@aliceinwonderland4773 You live with ONLY 500e per month,and you work for ONLY 500e a month?!Scary and sad!
My advice move to another country or better to another continent,for example Canada!!
@@aliceinwonderland4773 on your place i would immediately!
@@wildheartxxx135 lol Canada is not the place people think it is.
I arrived in Rennes around ten years ago - I spoke barely a word of French and 200Eur inmy pocket but still managed to find work by visiting practically each shop, restaurant and bar in the center and ask for a job - I did everything from washing up, waitering, cleaning, factory work. During this time I met loads of people like her (especially on the rue de soif) - to proud to work shit jobs but yet expect the state to provide for them - at the same time you meet loads of immigrants - polish, portuguese, sri lankans who work and are able to build a life for themselves buy putting the graft and doing the jobs the french think is beneathe them. Tens years later I have a house, a really good job, kids, live in a really nice commune etc - as have most of my fellow immigrants I'm still in contact with. The french that I met on the rue de soif - they are still there complaining about their lives and expecting the world to owe them something.
She seems medicated throughout this video. I understand someone falling down in life (it happens to the best of people), getting stuck in one of society's ugly hidden fissures for a variety of complicated and deeply unjust reasons. Some people just experience tectonic shifts in life outside their control and it's all very difficult to explain, untangle and emerge from. However, to see someone settling into this sort of lifestyle is a HUGE psychological red flag/white flag. When they don't express a burning desire to meet good fortune halfway and do the work to pull themselves out...very sad to see. There's only so much one can do for people like this. As you said, they don't really want to try. They aren't thinking clearly and for myriad reasons have burnt out/been abandoned by all friends and family that could genuinely help (another red flag as one must wonder WHY?). The disconnect is best illustrated by their conviction that they 'deserve' to be doing a much better job than a minimum wage one-- never mind that they appear to have no skills, qualifications or natural talents they've worked at. That deluded sense of angry, bitter entitlement says it all to me.
The longer someone psychologically traumatised and unwell is left to their own devices to fester and wallow in penury, the harder it becomes for them to emerge from their toxic, isolated headspace. These people end up hating themselves and become too anxious and clouded in their thinking to 'do the work'. When being close to homeless and barely able to feed oneself doesn't disgust one enough to shower, get off drugs and seek help...that horrifies me. Imagine being in this woman's brain. I shudder.
Good job pete through all your struggles you made a good life in the end
This is what I think is the problem. Living in France, I found them to be lazy to work hard and always expecting the state to pay them for nothing. I am Indian and all my life I was taught, if I don't earn for my own stomach, government will never come to save us.
@@nardspirit You'd positively hurl if you saw what the United Kingdom and it's people are like. A totally disordered, broken country full of mercenary hustlers and people playing every system for every penny they can get. I couldn't care less who my comment "offends, I'm heartbroken to see it. I was brought up outside of the UK and the entire 'benefits system' is completely bizarre to me.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 I actually think u hit a nerve or 2 with your statement. Tbh sometimes the isolation and lack of funds combined with lack of social support or family can all add up to a never ending nightmare. I for one did have some family and some skills to deal with my circumstances but even now 5 years on from my blow out its still quite a lonely road. Each person deals with shit in different ways, I may just be one of the lucky ones. 🤔😎👍
In developed countries what counts as impoverished is really mind-blowing. This girl is below the poverty line but she has a laptop, a smartphone, a flat, and is nowhere near starvation. She honestly is living like a university student and an argument can be made that in some ways she is living better than kings did in antiquity. She's so young that learning to live frugally now may even be a boon to her in the future if she increases her income in the future.
Totally agree.
They have poverty mindset, their mind does that.The have invisible chains around their wrist n ankle, thats why people would get together and work together!
I am from france. Was expat in usa for many years
And i can tell you the unemployed in france. Think they got a horrible life
I am like yo in usa they dont offer you free hospital. Free pharmacy. Free university
And if you ask for welfare. They give a joke ammount. And they put all kind of restrictions to increase the odds that you cant claim it or cant claim it for long
In france you can get 1500 euros/month through the welfares programs. They even can pay your rent up to 1000 euros and pay your metro/bus card 😂
Ppfft, must be nice being such a good obedient sheep right? I bet the establishment finds you very reassuring, just sit there and nod will you, don't try to pretend to have an opinion, everyone who uses the "oh they live better that kings in ancient times" are past the point of return already, monarchs had not a worry regarding their basic needs, property, leisure or future standing in any historical period, besides being offed by others wanting their spot, and it means absolutely nothing that her poverty looks better than that of other countries, she or anyone else for that matter should not be having to live like that, when our "elected representatives" do nothing but mire the social horizontal growth dynamics while they themselves keep improving their way of life exponentially, next thing you are going to tell me the offensive being carried out by the EU against small agricultural producers is proper and necessary and that is not going to end up with less quality and quantity of produce available for working and middle classes.
She’s on the brink of homelessness, she can barely afford food, her laptop is old and broken and she can’t replace it. Keep in mind laptops aren’t really luxuries but necessities as so much shifts online especially during Covid. You sound like a boomer. People shouldn’t have to starve. And she’s not a student, she works.
The fact that even the life of a BPL family in France looks akin to the life of a lower middle class family in India is shocking
It's even better than lower middle class . They call it poverty i too am shocked
They are entitled people who will complain of everything but won’t try to find a job.
@@neerand exactly, and it's not like there are no jobs there unlike in lesser developed countries
@@neerand agreed, there is alot of job openings and with a minimum wage they would have much better lifestyles.
Bro i was going to say the same thing for north africa
this is how we always live in Turkey the catch is the government doesn't give us social welfare and we are considered ungrateful by our elderly
You turkish people voted for edrogran you deserve it. He destroying everything bringing back arab cult enjoy
it's easier in AMERICA once you have housing
what?
@ラダ When the war in Ukraine ends there will be no more Ukraine...
@ラダ Dont you remember that Turkey supports Russia? the government is against Ukraine, the people maybe not, but the ones in charge doesnt care about what people want after all...
I came to EU when I was 19 I started working in black as a babysitter, house keeper etc and it really took a toll on me as I was seeing people at my age having fun going out etc. I kept my ground and stood strong. 10 years passed now I'm working in one of the big 4s making figures. No one around me knows this but in my heart I know that everything is possible. When there is a will there is a way...
what is a 4s ????
there is a way for those who do not die, who do not crash, resist drugs and alcohol, do not get sick or depressed.... and that is unfortunately the minority.
These systems, this political arbitrariness, the power of the rich must be broken!
آفرین نیلو خانم. براوو
you are lucky, some are not
@@JustMe-gs9xi the big 4 are the 4 biggest accounting firms in the world: Deloitte, KPMG, PWC, and EY
"Never ending stress" absolutely sums it up.
come to america and you will see stress also
@@didforlove It's all over the world
I'm from America. Her sentence sums it up for all of us living in poverty. Stress never leaves. It's always there.
@@lisamariee3546 yup its always in the shadows
@@TruthAplomado we need a new system
Bless every one who is struggling to makes their lives better.
As someone who's currently on financial assistance from social services due to a medical injury from an adverse reactions to a medications that left me physically disabled,I can fully understand how it feels to be in that situation,the struggle going through every single day worrying about money and thinking what is ahead of the future. It feels like we were forgotten .
dude feel for your story, but is totally different from this lady, you been disabled, this lady can walk and most of all WORK
Hey... It's terrible. And it should not be this way. Can I ask what medication caused it?
Perhaps you can apply for an invalidity rent ?!?
Lies again? HDB Paris
what? you're on financial assistance, why would you spend every day worrying about money? lmao
I don't think they could have picked a worse example of poverty in France. Not only is this woman not poor but she has no reason for even being in her current situation. She has no kids or disabilities that could prevent her from working, she's young, she speaks french and she lives in a walkable city where she could easily get a minimum wage job in a supermarket or something.
Minimum wage in France is extremely livable and based on inflation.
She clearly has enough time to look for jobs since according to her taxes she worked an average of 5 hours a week in 2020.
If you have enough money to smoke and go out drinking, I don't think you can claim to be living in poverty.
It's also pretty shameful to take advantage of food banks instead of leaving it for truly poor people (for example a single mother who works and also has 3 kids to pay for and take care of) since as she says, there is less and less to go around and more and more people that need it.
Her reasoning of 'If I work too much, I can't have my gibs' is flawed since she would make almost 3 times what she gets from taxpayers if she worked full time at minimum wage, not sure if it's an excuse or just a mindset but I think the most probable answer is also the simplest: laziness.
YES
Thanks for this valuable video, I'm actually from a neighbouring country and have found myself in a similar situation because of a trauma and burnout and anxiety that I developed. While it is generally slightly better here, it's highly dependent on where you live and I've ended up living in the worst area possible. It's not easy and I can only hope that my health improves.
Take care! I lived abroad for 5 years from my home country and I had a fairly comfortable job, but I got seriously burnt out from it, when I moved away to a different country, middle if 2020 during the pandemic, I developed sever anxiety too. I'm currently in a lucky position that my family here are letting me work it out on my own terms without pushing me back into the workforce, I've become a stay-at-home person that does cleaning and cooking, lol, just like a housewife, 😂😂 but I don't mind it, I actually kinda like it. But before I moved abroad for that job I was living just as you are, and I became severely depressed and mildly suicidal. It's really hard to get out from under that, and it usually takes luck/chance or someone helping you to get fully out of it. When I first moved abroad I was still dealing with some of the feelings from it but it was the first time I could afford therapy, I couldn't afford therapy or medications before that.
I hope things get brighter for you.
lol truama anxiety burnout????? from work? I hope nothing physically happened to you or injured you but in USA that doesn't exist AT ALL get up go to work is what we are told
It would have been good if they provided some context to their situations. To live above the poverty line, one has to earn more, therefore they are not earning enough No malice intended, but the question most ppl will ask is why are they unable to get better, stable jobs. Is it a matter of education, mental health, no jobs available in their location?
A lot of jobs are just going away these days. Hard times financially for smaller business, automation, etc.
Capitalism has some down sides and one is that to keep labor costs down it needs unemployment. Most economists say between 2-3% unemployment is the minimum needed to labor costs don't rise. And that has to be across all kinds of fields from nursing to fast food to construction. You need a minimum amount of all of them unemployed to control labor costs.
In the end how people become poor is much much less important than doing something about their poverty. Because our system demands a minimum number be unemployed. It is the price of our success that some will not participate in that success at any given time.
@@whitelabrat thanks. I never thought about that but it makes sense.
In many places, once you start earning more, the welfare stops and you end up in a position where you're taking in less money with a slightly higher paying job than you would just being on welfare. It can be difficult to get out of
Entry level jobs are vanishing. Most things are automated, and work is temporary. Also graduating with debts is a burden that prevents people from putting money aside
Many jobs are either short term or low paying or both. Look at the job research sites rigjt now. Even jobs for educated people can be low paying or just for a short season.
Hey, I totally feel your pain and struggle. I am from Serbia, emigrated to America in 2008 after my cousin extended me an invite to move in with him in LC. He used to own a taxi bussiness until it got burned down due to an incident that I'd rather not talk about. The life there was pretty tough, we had cockroaches in our apartment, there were some Russian mobsters that kept on blackmailing me, my cousin, his girlfriend and pretty much all of our friends that we made there. Eventually, we raised above poverty through a lot of blood and sacrifices that I still think about to this day. Still not as bad as the War, but still.... grueling and grim. I hope you can find your peace in France and manage to attain your financial independence, lots of love, Niko
xDDDD
Greetings from Bosnia! I hope y'all are doing alright now, I know a lot of us joke about the current socioeconomic situation on the balkans but sadly this just shows that it can get worse.
If its not a sensitive topic would you mind telling us a bit more about those Russian mobsters? That part took me by surprise o.o
@@cinnamonbunz4ever Bro, this man just told you the story of the Main character in Grand Theft Auto 4 haha..
@@TOGcommunity Oh yikes. I'm not well versed with GTA, had no clue
Hey, Niko, it's your cousin Roman. Let's go bowling!
I live in a similar condition in Italy. Anxiety and depression has struck me from doing anything, I also have a degree but its not valuable enough for the current western society. I hope things will get better because I'm suffering so much even if I don't say this to anyone besides strangers on web. Hope your life will get better soon.
As someone who has been there myself, it does get better. But it can be a long road. I hope you continue finding strength each day to move forward and that you can surround yourself with supportive people. Best of luck.
Anxiety and depression just freezes you. I have a family member In exactly the same situation. I hope you find the strength physically and mentally to get ahead. God bless from the U.K.
Persevere. Do some voluntary work if you can. I used to get rejections from 30+ job applications in a couple of weeks or so (I live in a small city) and you'll get there. Some of my closest friends are Italian and their perseverance and passion helped me become a better person. Forza Italia.
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Am I the only one who feels like this is pretty damn nice for being under the poverty line? She’s got her own room to herself with up-to-date technology etc
Hi I'm French and I can attest, I wouldn't say she lives under the poverty line, she's actually getting by really good even tho she's in a limbo, a lot of students are living the way she is, and it could be also where she's living that is impacting her financial problem (lack of jobs, prices too big,big cities)
@Anafairy she doesn t have a job+ unlimited free time. It s not poverty.
@@luxraider5384 exactly !! get out there and look for employment , and keep looking until u find something. Bills don't get paid if no efforts were
put into.
French are lazy people, they rather complaining and burning their cities than working.
@@emmamonnely3124 My friend is a waiter, while he's in school and he makes $200 a night bussing tables. She can get her lazy @ss to work.
I feel her pain. I am broke, unemployed and will be homeless at the end of April the stress and fear are unbearable I'm most likely going to have to 911 myself into a crisis center. I'm in Pittsburgh Pa. and the middle class is quickly dying. All I want is a decent job and small place to live.
How do u deal with anxiety?
Rent a car and drive Uber/Lyft. You will have plenty of business in Pittsburg.
Hard to believe its so bad in.Pittsburg
she is beautiful and warm person , i hope her life gets better 🤗
As a stranger who lives in France I can honestly say that people here can live a stable life working normal jobs. It doesn’t matter if you work at the supermarket or fast food joint as long as you can show you can hold a job down you can get a loan from the bank to a buy a house or a car as they have a good scheme in place for home buyers here. For example they calculate your income and base a time frame around that income to workout what you can pay monthly towards the loan. If you don’t try of course you will live under the poverty line but in France or Europe it is easier than other 1st world countries like USA or NZ.
Unlike USA In France Health care is free, dental is free, education is free public transport is cheap you can catch a train to anywhere in Europe. You can catch a train to England Netherlands Spain Italy Belgium or Portugal so travelling is easy and cheap and there are schemes where the country pays you to study and your money increases every year and lot of the time people go straight into work after study because they go on work experience for a company. It is honestly upto to the person whether they live well or struggle. In this video there are three of these people living together but they choose to rely solely on welfare or little jobs they do for a few weeks. They are young and they struggle to get 800 euros between them for rent. Like there is no excuse they are honestly lazy.
You don't know anything about these people. They could have health issues (physical or mental) that make it difficult or impossible to perform a regular, steady job. Laziness is one explanation but sometimes people need a little bit of help, some guidance regarding what to do and how to achieve something. Listening to the young woman's story for instance, she did not have this type of guidance when she was younger. When you have no social network or safety net, no examples, it might be very challenging to become part of 'normal' society.
I could be where she is and i am ibd pacient, but im still working. You just want to find excusse for her
The fact that France has a better social safety net means nothing. Social safety nets like free education (which the U.S. has plenty of) and free healthcare is not a magic bullet to stop poverty.
When it's hard to find a job, you will lose $$. Work can disappear and not everyone does well in school; it doesn't matter if the education is free or not.
And what about her past life?
To be honest, I don't understand why these young people cannot find a proper full-time job. It's actually quite easy in France. It doesn't have to be a high paid job but just a full-time one and it would be already enough for a quite comfortable life. They are young and healthy but prefer to stay home and to whine about their "difficult life".
Indeed. I don't know the situation in france very well but in Germany or Denmark you can easily get a job. Anyone can. Anyone who is not working is just lazy or such a bad worker that nobody wants them or very old. Young people can definitely easily get by. A lot of people are just too stubborn to try.
Perso au début de la vingtaine je ne trouvais pas de boulot car je n'avais pas le permis et la voiture. On me faisait énormément la morale alors que je cherchais tout les jours du taf. On me refusait dans les boîtes d'intérim à cause de mon manque de mobilité. Il aura fallu attendre mes 24 ans pour avoir une bagnole grâce à une clientèle de personnes âgées qui me payaient au lance pierre et des contrats de réinsertion. Depuis je n'ai plus jamais été au chômage. Il y a beaucoup de gens qui manquent de volonté certes, mais même lorsque ce n'est pas le cas on peut se retrouver dans un cercle vicieux qui nous fait prendre beaucoup de retard. Courage à ceux qui sont dans ce cas là.
+1 les gens parlent sans rien connaître... Ils prennent les gens de haut sans avoir rien connu
Le problème ce n'est pas le travail, il y en a toujours eu. Le souci ce sont les salaires minables, sans jamais d'augmentation, avec des horaires pétés, des N+2 complètement incompétents, du port de charge lourde et inintéressants au possible.
Je suis complètement d'accord avec toi, c'est ce que j'ai vécu aussi.
Moi aussi, au début de la 20aine, je ne trouvais pas de travail car je n'avais ni permis ni la voiture. Surtout que lorsque tu habites en campagne et que les bus sont mal desservis, c'est dur.
Pourtant, j'adore les voitures mais je me mettais tellement de pression pour avoir le permis car je me disais que si je ne l'avais pas, je ne pouvais pas évoluer d'autant plus que ça coutait très cher et ce n'est pas prêt de s'arranger. Quand j'ai fini par l'avoir, j'étais en découvert (tout près des agios) et par dignité, je ne l'ai pas dis à mes parents. Ils l'ont su au moment où j'allais acheter la voiture. Je me souviens que je m'étais fais engueuler par mes parents parce qu'ils m'auraient évité ça et je leur ai dis que je voulais leur prouver que je pouvais m'en sortir tout seul, sans aide. Au total, le permis m'a coûté 6000€, je suis passé par 3 autos-écoles dont 2 mauvaises qui faisaient exprès de me le faire rater à chaque examens. Je l'ai raté 4X. Il m'a fallu 7 ans pour avoir le permis, je l'ai eu à l'âge de 25 ans.
Certes, on va me dire qu'il y a la conduite accompagnée mais mes parents ne voulaient pas me la faire faire et franchement, ils se sont aperçu que c'était une grosse erreur. Tellement grosse que pour mon frère, ils lui ont fait faire la conduite accompagnée. Là-dessus, je me suis quand même senti lésé.
J'ai toujours été volontaire et travailleur mais je me suis quand même retrouvé dans un cercle vicieux qui m'a fait prendre du retard et quand l'entourage n'est pas toujours compréhensif en faisant constamment la morale qui est surtout contreproductive, ça n'aide pas. Sans parler de la société qui te catalogue comme étant un "cassos". Ensuite, va justifier ton manque d’expérience devant un employeur dès que tu lui remets ton CV...
Je ne compte plus le nombre de fois où j'ai été refusé par les employeurs (agences d'intérim comprises) parce que je n'avais pas le permis...
Ce qu'il faut savoir, c'est que les employeurs se foutent de savoir si tu es en train de passer ton permis ou non. Surtout quand on habite en pleine cambrousse.
@@IROCMAN666 +1 beau témoignage.
Les auto-écoles sont une mafia ils expliquent souvent mal, je sais pas si ils sont cons ou si ils font exprès, ou les deux, mais clairement, c'était une horreur d'apprendre la conduite.
Je l'a faisais en ville et c'était une catastrophe (trente minutes de perdues à chaque fois pour partir et revenir ou je ne prenais pas le volant!),
ce sont des fumiers de haut niveau et oui il faut apprendre par quelqu'un qu'on connait.
à l'intérim, j'écoutais une des rh au téléphone (haut parleur), elle disait vous n'avez pas beaucoup travaillé... pourquoi...?"
le gars répondait "j'ai dû attendre d'avoir le rsa pour me payer une bagnole!"
mais vive la campagne
@@chowyunfat9118 faut faire ses preuves. Se faire de l’expérience et faire valoir ses compétences ailleurs par la suite. On frise le plein emploi en France. Des taff payés correctement il y en a plein pour celui qui donne du sien dans son emploi.
I came to France to study. As a student I worked two jobs just to pay rent and be able to eat. I finished , my studies and found a job. Im comfortable. I cannot complain about France. I think its a place where, if you want to achieve good things and have the work ethic, not even the sky can limit you...whether you are pink,blue or green...the limit is just yourself. Vive la France.
Yeah and i get annoyed with these people in the video.
Like why is it that every damn video on poverty it's people making terrible decisions left and right.
Like here where they seem to live in a sought after town/city and they skirt a high as hell rent while living with multiple people.
When you're at the point where you have to negotiate more than once with the landlord to pay your rent on time you need a firm slap to the head.
These kinds of people, every landlord's worst nightmare, should just kick them out if they fault on the rent multiple times tbh.
I agree. If any young person who is living in first world countries with all those opportunities and chances and is still poor, they can't survive in Third World countries with those hard conditions.
@@coffeepot3123 Precisely, there seems to be 4 people living in there, assuming they all get 500 Euro's a month from government support and the rent is 780 Euro's a month, thats only 195 Euros per person. That leaves them with 305 Euros a month each, if 50 Euros covers the groceries for 2 weeks for 4 people, thats only 100 Euro's for an entire month to feed the whole "family". They're pretty well off according to even some developed "3rd world countries" and seem to have a pretty chill life.
@@think4thesoul I'm afraid you missed how expensive it is to live in Europe, and the issues of additional expenses. The minimum wage in France is around 1700 (minus taxes), which is just enough for one person to live on. There is no way 50eur can feed 4 people for 2 weeks, you can probably feed 2 people on that for a week, and that's tight. Electricity, water and gas. can cost around 150-200 eur per month, 4 adults on a cheap (older) accommodation likely cost more. Winter comes, you are lucky to find shoes for 50 eur, and the rest may come from 2nd hand stores. If their glasses, washing machine, or phone breaks down, that's a few hundred euros gone. There's internet, waste collection charges, phone bills, health charges, pharmacy, transportation, etc. in France, a family of four needs around 3000-4000eur to cover their expenses - the people from the news piece are 4 unrelated adults.
@@Eddieteddy965 Anyway the math is still good, if each earns 500euros and put in the table 300euros for all their expenses in a month, the rest 200euros should be enough for you to put yourself in the map of employment, buy a bike and do some deliveries through an app that will most likely give you a good extra income until you land that job that will get you off of welfare and make you feel a decent citizen which allows you to pay for your own expenses at your own cost.
She's going through a hard time....as a person who has gone through something similar I can somewhat relate and I'm wishing all the best for your future, you look beautiful and stay strong
This made me realize even more that I am such a privileged brat, wish you the best.
At least you’re a sympathetic and knowledgeable brat ;-)
C'est un très bon commentaire👍👍
@@loussis8584 exactement
@@loussis8584 dweeb
There is a difference between POVERTY and PRECARIOUSNESS ! Be careful!
And what is it son of a witch ?
@@stopUkrainewar666 Poverty is when you don't have money to feed yourself properly, you don't have a roof over your head (or your housing is not dignified), you can't wash yourself because you don't have access to proper water, your days are uncertain... Precariousness in France is when you have the RSA (500€ per month), APL aid deducted from the rent (100-200 euros per month), a Christmas bonus (150€), when you have access to drinking water, electricity, and you sleep in a bed... It's a real struggle in life (I know I'm on RSA) but it's not poverty dumbass.
It’s a thin line
As someone who lives as a working class folk in a developing country, its really odd to see poor people in developing countries. We've always had this kind of mindset ingrained to us that white folks are rich, have always been.
It's both true and false. We are, overall, much richer. However, with higher salaries comes higher prices. A lot of things are more expensive. 500 euros per month can be a fortune in a poor country, but here in France you'll struggle to survive and not end up in the streets. In big cities, rent for a small apartment can be around 400 euros. Even if you buy cheap stuff, groceries will cost you at least 100 per month. If you use public transport (forget about a car if you're poor) you might need to pay between 20 to 50 euros per month for an unlimited pass (1h tickets are between 1 and 2 euros). Just with that you end up in the negative, and that's without paying for clothes, equipment and so on.
@@MannyLectro idk where you live but you houses are cheap asf
@@sotch2271 France. And 400 euros per month for a small apartment can be a lot when minimum wage is 1200 euros per month. It's doable, but if you're like the girl in the video, living with only 500 euros per month, it gets tricky.
U never seen eastren europe the, here 400euro is the monthly salary
@@sotch2271 it is 400€ per person in the apartment, which can throw the number to 1200€ for thr whole apartment, anyways yeah it might be cheaper than in your country, the situation youll find yourself in mostly relies on how much of your salary u spend on certain things, spending 80% of your salary on rent is *not* an easy thing
Being poor in France is like a middle class full working couple in Argentina (maybe a little better!)
I love the way French people wear their tactical baguettes
Lol I'm french and i never saw that
@@Al.katouss What? Everyone does this here ;)
@@Al.katouss Everyone does this here 😭 je sais pas où tu vis tho !
Im dead...You killed me. I cant stop laughing
I was admiring that too 😆
Can totally relate. I am American and in an expensive city (Seattle) on disability benefits. Everything is very high here. Thankfully I live with my brother and I have a close friend in town. God, I can't imagine if I didn't have my brother, I might be homeless. And I'm sick of so many other countries being portrayed as a paradise in our media. Our mother taught ESL so I've met immigrants from all around the world, which tells me not everything is perfect in these other countries.
In Algeria you get paid 213 dollar a month
This salary feed families pay rent and bills
There's a huge difference between third world and first world in term of poverty
Wtf I work 55-65 hours a week in canada and I'm basically in the same spot in life as her.
Daniel, my G. You're working hard not smart. Smarten up buddy.
You're working 60 hours a week to make 2.5 K a year ? You're not getting scammed at this point but plainly f***ed.
@@musazwane6049 mean
Musa is correct you are making a great effort but in the wrong place.
@@jianquanma but true tbh,tough love is needed sometimes
Poverty in the first world is a luxury to the third world.
Nope, until you see the homeless 😂
This isn't poverty , she just needs to clean and take better care of her room and belongings.
😂
She is a healthy woman and seems to have at least an average intelligence. Living in one of the best countries in the world, she could find a full-time job and live way better, but she prefers to work from time to time and live with 500 euros in a month.
EXACTLY
I was living like this for a while back in California both before uni and after, and without financial aid (I didn't completely qualify because I didn't have children), the hardest was after university when I was applying for 7 jobs a week for a year and half and most said I was under qualified even though I had 10 years work experience in multiple areas (a lot of it was in theatre but theatre is notoriously unstable work and pay-wise, I wanted a more stable job just to be able to live without having to rely on anyone for the most part and maybe save money, but a lot of stable jobs don't really consider theatre to be "real work experience", lol), funny thing was a lot of lower paid jobs said I was over qualified and wouldn't hire me. I also feel like maybe I wasn't the best at advocating and promoting myself. I was severely depressed and maybe a little suicidal. I was glad I had friends and family that let me stay with them for free as long as I helped out around the place and cooked and cleaned a bit, but I think the longest I stayed at anyone's was like 2 weeks, it's very jarring to the psyche to have to move around like that so often and not by choice. I finally given a job at a grocery store that eased my situation a bit (half of the people there were in the same situation as me, some even had master's degrees), then within a year I had applied and was accepted for a job outside the country, it was the best thing to happen, I lived comfortably for 5 years doing that job, but with visa stuff I knew it wasn't permanent. Still living abroad (in a different country from the previous job) but things are much better than when I was in the States, I doubt I will ever go back since I now have the choice to stay away. Not everyone has that option though, I got lucky. Honestly I'm sick of all the meritocracy crap, 80-90% of people no matter where they live in the world are in a position where they can live comfortably because of straight luck/chance or someone helped them out in some way (usually finacially), very very few are in that position because they did it completely themselves. You know the only reason I'm not in debt for uni is because I was over 24 (so didn't have to claim my parents' financials), broke, and had decent grades in Junior College, so I qualified for aid for uni, my only part in it was to do the research because I desperately wanted to go but couldn't afford it and knew I didn't qualify for academic scholarships. I think if I had university debt I wouldn't have been able to climb out from where I was.
@missing sig 80-90% of people dont live comfortably because of luck, they live comfortably because of dedication and determination.
@@janki3353 luck plays a role too. Just watch a video on the science of success. It's more than just hard work (although we also shouldn't undermine hard work too).
@@janki3353 nope, that's because of circumstances to actually being able to realize their potential, but that possibility is 100% tied to where you live and the social conditions of your family/relatives and whether they are able to aid you on that or not. If you are born homeless, 99% chance that youll die early or live a subhuman life, even if you have "dedication and determination". Try to focus on studying or bettering yourself without a roof and having to scrape by with food found on garbage, it's realistically impossible.
Tl:Dr circumstances dictates if you are able to be "determined", not willpower.
If 4 jobs out of 5 tell you that you're "overqualified" then start removing things from your CV. Wtf.
Always write what they want to hear in the CV and left out what is not for them.I have got 4 different degrees and more diversified work experience.Never mentioned them all together.What is the point of making them feel you can raise up to be the boss or that you will leave for something better if they hire you?
En lisant certains commentaires, j'ai l'impression de tomber sur des gens qui n'ont pas connu de galères où bien qui en ont connu mais qui s'en sont sortis, tant mieux pour eux s'ils ont travaillé honnêtement pour ça et que c'est mérité, qu'ils ont eu une voire plusieurs opportunités qui les ont sortis de la misère mais ceux-là oublient vite d'où ils viennent et méprisent ceux qui ont du mal à s'en sortir. Ils ont une attitude de nouveaux riches alors qu'ils ne se rendent pas compte qu'ils peuvent retomber dans leurs anciennes galères car la vie peut basculer d'un jour à l'autre suite à une maladie ou une perte d'emploi par exemple. Tout peut s'écrouler très vite.
Donc, quand j'entends que ''Pour trouver du travail, il faut traverser la rue'', je trouve ça insupportable et irrespectueux.
Bonsoir, j'ai beaucoup aimé la nuance : "s'ils ont travaillé honnêtement", car on en connaît tous quelques uns qui ont triché d'une façon ou d'une autre pour en arriver là où ils sont.
Et souvent ils ne se privent pas pour regarder les autres de haut en effet.
pareil, j'ai eu un pote qui à touché le rsa durant 1 ans, il a retrouvé un travail niveau ingénieur , il avait complétement oublié la galère qu'il avait vécu et commençai à basher les gens aux rsa en les traitant de profiteurs, tu parle d'un profit.
Parfois je me demande si ses gens ne font pas ça pour se convaincre qu'il ne retomberons pas la misère, parfois c'est aussi la pression du cercle familiale surtout pour les plus jeunes .
Je suis fils d'immigré, c'est marrant, tous les cousins qui debarquent (une bonne partie illegalement, a ma grande honte) trouvent des jobs, sans diplome, et en parlant mal la langue...
Alors pour une francaise de souche? Mdr ce reportage est une blague. Va a n'importe quel McDo, ils embauchent en continu. Ma derniere copine y bossait tout en s'occupant de 2 gamins.
@@MN-vz8qm la mcdo ma recalé bizarre ... par contre oui tu va la restauration si est clandestins ça les arranges tu trouvera un taf sans soucis, tu peu rien dire puis de toute façon tu parle pas français.
@@MN-vz8qm Pour ce qui est de tes cousins qui trouvent des boulots sans diplômes, est-ce que c'est déclaré ou non ? Parce qu'il faut quand même reconnaitre qu'une fois sur deux, ce n'est pas déclaré. Attention, je ne dis pas que tous ceux qui débarquent (illégalement ou non) en France travaillent "au noir" mais ça arrive... dans le sens où certains patrons profitent.
Je ne suis pas d'accord concernant les McDo, ils embauchent peut-être mais il faut voir si c'est rentable car si ce n'est qu'un temps partiel et que tous les mois, les charges sont plus élevées que le salaire, ça ne vaut pas forcément le coup. A moins de travailler à 2, mais si t'es seul... c'est vraiment compliqué.
En plus, elle le dit elle-même. Lorsqu'elle fait des missions d'intérim, le RSA n'est plus versé à partir de la prochaine déclaration trimestrielle. Donc, si pendant 3 mois, l'agence ne t'appelle plus... tu ne touches plus rien et tu as intérêt à être très économe. Si t'es flambeur, c'est une catastrophe.
Je me souviens de ma toute première mission d'intérim, c'était pour une journée et ça s'était très bien passé. Quelques jours après, je touche ma paye (grosso modo 70€) et lorsqu'il a fallu le déclarer à la CAF, j'étais dégouté parce qu'ils m'ont retenu 140€... cherchez l'erreur.
2:31 - if she puts a beer among her absolute essentials that tells me everything about her.
I'm on £50k a year, but don't buy more than 2-3 beers a month
I would rather say that your comment says enough about you. It's not for us to judge anyone especially people we don't even know. Not everyone deals with problems in the same way. I also live in poverty and have no vices. I only spend money on food, clothes and rent, and I don't consider myself a better or worse person than anyone else because of that. We're all just people at the end of the day.
@@Stardust3567 i disagree on that one mate. Someone else works hard, pay taxes so she can get benefits which then she spends on alcohol! Benefits almost always make people lazy. Sorry but life is brutal. In animal world there's no benefits for lazy ones. If you don't work, you die. Simple as that. I don't care.
@@Stardust3567beer is food. Sometimes is better to drink a beer ( €1) and save some money.
Everything aside... She's so beautiful without any care . .... Imagine being pampered and getting all the care, she can easily exceed other girls at any fashion industry...❤❤
She has money to get her eyebrows done, beauty products, cigs, boozs and creature comforts without even trying to hold a job. Wtf is she complaining about?
100% tax payers money then..
Money won't always make you happier but it certainly makes life easier when you have it.
Can people stop comparing hardships in the comments?! We get it you’re poorer than her or you know someone poorer than her, that doesn’t take away from the suffering they have to go through.
Literally the only rational person in the comments, hooray!
@@auroraperson884 PREACH👏👏🗣️🗣️
If this is bellow poverty line,then many people from 3rd world country will happily settle for this.
Europeans here: shit, this is crazy and may God send her strength...
Me(a South Asian) here: lol this is how most of us live everyday😭
You have a chance to start a business making shoes and selling them in the market.
Here in Europe we need 100 licenses, money, more money, taxes, approvals, health licenses, inspections, approvals.
You can escape being poor, we can't.
@@recoverhealth2062 What makes you think us Asians don't pay taxes and have any regulations. Better yet, assume we can just "make" shoes and there's already a market for them.
@@dtpmakaveli5042 compared to Europe you don't have strong regulations. Here everything is enforced to the most minute detail.
@@recoverhealth2062 Which Asian and European countries are you making comparisons? If you still want to statistically compare on the topic of poverty, the unfortunate in asian countries live in far gruesome and horrible living conditions, compared to the west. Make no mistake, I'm not saying there are no people in the west or Europe that live in horrible conditions, but poverty is NOT and never supposed to be a competition. At the end of the day, we're all dying to live and yet living to die. Good debate 👌
@@dtpmakaveli5042 you need a fishing license in the EU, all countries, you aren't even allowed to fish for food without paying the government for the privilege.
I live with poverty due to social issues too.
Sometimes it feels like you were born on the wrong planet
don't be rude, I hope everything will get better for you, I wish you have time, remember you are not alone, many people support you
@@zinit1477 how is that rude?
Yeah wish i was born on satrun or somthing
I can see the depression through her eyes. But at leat she is in the first word, hope she will overcome this.
She could work in any restaurant and bar. French native, young and beautiful, anyone would hire in their shop
I would love her life to be honest, she's really free
If I had her luck I would adopt a very frugal lifestyle and use my time to learn about things I'm curious about and enjoy life
I feel sorry for her situation, for not being able to travel and afford more things for herself, she is clearly struggling but also seeing this cannot hold my heart from squeezing for the people below poverty line in my country, Hungary...Having an own room in a shared apartment, having a roof over her head, laptop even if falling apart, internet, headphones, even the glasses and meat on the table with bread...these are all things people in my country below poverty line could never afford, living in tents or small huts without water and electricity, or in small old apartments in the capital surrounded by drug addicts and crime. I know there isn't much point in comparing, all countries are different and of course i am not in the position to give advice but maybe even these circumstances are a reason to feel a bit of gratitude, still could be much worse. I think this girl is trying to make the most out of her life which is amazing, I hope soon her luck will turn around and until then i'm happy for her to live her life at least in France with these circumstances and not in a much poorer country where she'd be suffering more. God bless her.
"A calculator is mandatory while grocery shopping." Words we don't want anyone to ever need to say
Pulkit Singh - It's realistic & very smart to calculate the price of everything you purchase, especially with prices increasing on a global basis. I've calculated prices of everything I buy for many yrs, long before the 2020 pandemic began. I've kept so much money in the bank & invested my money by living on a strict budget & using a lot of coupons whenever I shop. If I don't have any coupons, then I wait for discounts / promotions / sales or I don't buy it at all.
its common sense
she could get a job at a restaurant, bar something. give me a break. i'm French and I know that France has amazing benefits. nothing like the US
Damn. They call this poverty. I call this average life. I guess we have different definition of hardship. But if this is poverty then I dont know how to describe the kind of hard life some people in my country experience.
Poverty relative to the people she is surrounded by.
The day to day stress is harsh. It's sad this is happening globally to young folks. Also sad that in the U.S. we have elderly who can't afford to retire and working into their 70's.
In the U.S you're going to have to work until 70 to get full benefits anyways.. "Age 67: Americans born in 1960 or later must wait until age 67 to be eligible for their full Social Security benefits. This age is typically the target of reforms, with some options raising it to age 70 for future retirees."
which i plan to do so...i hope i will still be healthy
I didn’t understand why she doesn’t work?
Probably just lazy…..
@@gina1465 Please it's not hard to be a minimum empathic instead of making idiot assumptions, specially when you know nothing of her life behind this 8 minutes video
It's not easy to get out of the poverty trap because it's a vicious circle with a lot of material and social obstacles, with plenty of judgement from society as well as from the inner judge. The most important step forward is to heal the childhood trauma that led to finding oneself in a marginalized position; if this inner wound is not healed, it continues to sabotage lives. Support from knowledgable workers is key.
I know what this is like. My entire life has been a series of trying to get ahead only to be kicked back down financially. It is bad when you make too much money to get assistance and not enough to survive.
Im 21. Living exactly like this. My problem is that my parents were poor too. Unfortnuately for me I dont seem to have any motivation to get out of this hell. I just eat sleep work and repeat like a housepet.
@@jacksquadreturns7827 I feel ya. I've been working hard to get ahead my entire life. At some point, I may just give up. This world is so shitty, but I have hope it will turn around.
@@jacksquadreturns7827 there won't ever be enough motivation. Motivation is shit. You need discipline.
@@jacksquadreturns7827 The way to break out of that mindset is to learn self discipline, that way ull be able to force ur way out.
I will tell u this much, if u live in a western nation then ur bound to have endless opportunities, and it all depends on u how far u get, but as often seen people would rather victimize themselves rather than actually trying to improve their circumstances.
Like the girl in the vid, she should be working instead of just lazing around waiting for handouts, she is able body, so she should be able to do food deliveries with uber eats or deliveroo, and she even has a phone so what's stopping her.
I wonder why she left home? An old friend of mine, who played viola in the local orchestra with me, lived with his grandparents. He didn't like living by their rules and decided to run away one day. Years later, I watch a documentary about homelessness in Seattle and saw him, full of regret.
That documentary must have been filmed within the first two years of him disappearing, so I wonder if he ever found his way home.
That’s a candid question, turn the question around, what could be so horrible at home that you prefer leaving ?
why do you talk as if you knew what was going on within the walls of their home ? you obviously don't.
@@ISangaloUnofficialFR Who are you talking to and which home are you talking about? The woman in the video, I clearly stated that I *WONDER* why she left home. And as for my friend, he was quite candid and said he didn't like their rules. I knew him better than you do, after all.
@@ossu2428 This is a useless question considering how open-ended my initial one was. Don't be difficult.
I left for four days at 18 to stay at a friend's.
I was working, paying rent and my mom was aware of the situation.
She kicked me out for 3 1/2 years....
This same woman almost got us both killed in a drug related fire last year.
Sometimes you got to leave
If you are in a similar situation, may I suggest that you grow lettuce and kale using hydroponics. KRATKY method needs less equipment, very little. Once you are good you can grow tomatoes etc. If you have access to a sunny yard it’s better because you won’t need to buy a grow light. That’s what I do and I get a lot of lettuce.
A little off topic: When stress is measured it is called “perceived stress level” because it has nothing to do with money but all to do with how we perceive our lives. There are millionaires who have killed themselves during the 2008 crisis while there are dirt-poor people who live stress-free. It is important that, when you find yourself in a worse situation then you have been until then, you take a breath and try to convince your brain that there are no bad situations, just tough ones. No matter what happens you should try to feel good about yourself, even when you’re broke and can’t feed your family. Look at the sky and the trees and think that you are alive and there is still so much to explore in life. Everyone has tough times and tough lives but some manage to be happy in impossible situations. Do your best and live for the moment
There isn't a way to live dirt poor in this country's.
Damn. She is so pretty. Fucking hell, now i want to learn french
I've also experienced living below the poverty line. That was after my parents died. Now, it's better but before it was certainly a struggle. I remember, eating in fastfood restaurant was a such luxury for me and every cent counts when i buy things. I hope her situation gets better. Stay strong.
I'm glad its better. Im currently living below poverty line. I dont think Ill make it because Im not as motivated as I should be to escape this hell. Idk what made me like this but I just eat, work, sleep repeat and somehow fine with it
@@jacksquadreturns7827 Start with giving up sweets, cigarettes, alcohol and drugs (if you use them) and learn how to cook (mostly veg, eggs and meat).
You will save a lot of money, that you will spend on food you will prepare yourself. You will feel much better SOON and have more energy and clear mind to THINK what is the next step.
If you believe in God (Jesus), it is easier.
I'll pray for you (I'm a Catholic).
Take care!
Eating something its a luxory in some places, the fact she knows she will eat something is good enough for he to be grateful, you have not seen true poverty yet.
@@agatanakonieczny2213 is that supposed to actually be helpful. When truly living below the poverty line those arent things you can afford lol!
@@Arginne Come on, being below the poverty lines does not having 0 money. But it is a common trait for individuals to recklessly waste their money on unecessary thing such as cigarettes or alchohol.
This is not poverty this is normal life.
❤️ ça a l'air d être une bonne personne, bien calme et respectueuse
I've been there. The best part of being poor is just to sleep all the time so that you don't have to see, nor interact with a world filled with shit. When I've visited Paris, I wanted to help street beggars, but many are thieving Romani. I was nearly pickpocketed by a team of very pretty Romani girls I was stopped by on a Paris street asking me for help, but my buddy walking with me saw one girl come up behind as I was talking to the other girl and she started reaching for my pants pocket and my friend who was a retired police officer, yelled at me that she was going for my pocket. They then both giggled and scurried away.
so you wanted to help street beggars but not the romani street beggars? makes total sense
@@blobtv7444 Did you miss the part where they tried to rob him?
They are all over Europe now.even in.Warsaw Beware
@@blobtv7444 they werent street beggers they were criminals BIG difference
The governments around the world are punishing young people for their mistakes. I am an old lady and things were so much easier for us when we were young. It is an absolute disgrace that these rich politicians expect others to suffer. No one deserves to live in poverty and no one deserves to be obscenely rich. Im so sorry this is happening to these amazing young people.
But there ARE jobs! Why are these kids not working?!?
@@oliviamartini9700 you mean job where you have to spend 70% of your income just to pay rent and have no savings or anything left .... You know the types of jobs that pay just enough to house yourself/feed itself / and transport yourself to work😞😞 Basically slave wage dead end jobs ..... I am lucky I make enough to live on 20% of my income .... But If I had to spend 70% of my income just on rent, I would not waste my energy working at such a job. Maybe that's what needs to happen, young people need to stop working these slave jobs and starve the beast /economy until it collapses and prices come back down to a reasonable amount.
You are very compassionate. I applaud you.
What standard of poverty is this exactly?! These kids have a nice apartment with private bedrooms, new fashionable clothes, new gadgets, healthy food on their plates. This is almost luxury for the rest of the world! It's honestly ridiculous and ungrateful to even complain about this! If they want the luxury of travel and to go out to nice restaurants and buying cars and property, then they can go get jobs.
"old lady had freedom of speech and freedom to vote so she could improve the world for her grandchildren, yet she did nothing with them but let the world go to waste."
Diane, my grandpa used to say "we never get a sidewalk in our village, in my lifetime", so one day when I was 25, I had enough and I collected all the signatures in our village to fix the damn sidewalk, I also fixed lights along the road, improved the cell phone coverage and last I fixed fiber internet in about 1200 homes. All complete in less than 5 years. Grandpa still alive for over 4 years now, unable to complain about anything because I fixed it all... He just sits quiet in his armchair, being grumpy.
The last homes got their fiber internet the day before cuuf lockdowns, I spend lockdws hiking freely in the mountains and receiving phone calls from parents saying my internet saved their children's education and their own jobs... As an old lady, you gotta have more time on this earth then me, yet I bet not a single person called you to tell you "you had saved their children's education" during the cuuf LD's... I respect your age, but you got nothing done as I see valuable to me. Nothing done the past 80 years I see as any value to preserving my culture and my village. Simple historical facts for me to follow.
People like my grandpa and yourself never did your duty to preserve your nations for your grandchildren, me.
To me, you sound like a little Trojanism infection consist in your rhetoric from ww2 scared PTSD babies. Not at all helpful to our younger generations.
As a young man, 32 years of age, having spent a good time of my life taking care of elderly and helping out my community, being the elected village leader since 2016.
I can only tell you to start holding yourself accountable, change your rhetoric and use less Trojanism rhetoric when you comment. Or simply don't talk if you can't stop yourself.
You see, when you start with "the governments around the world", and these are western democracies, it's you and I who control them, you just to lazy not to do it while I'm not as lazy and gets it done. So here in my village, I am the government, and we got no such issues.
You are the government in your home town, but you aren't holding yourself accountable to use your voting rights and freedom of speech correctly to improve on things.
If you say "the governments is punishing young people" then that is YOUR decision, you sat there letting it slide into place.
Where I live in my village, young folks gets about 2000€ a month to live on... then again, I'm the government in my village since I took control in 2016, everybody vote in my favor and everybody's happier, safer, more comfortable.
I don't accept excuses from anybody with voting rights and freedom of speech, you let it slide into place. You was given a duty you failed to perform, why earning your voting rights should be a MUST in the future. Simply common sense.
I too started from bottom, but I never needed to claim social benefit. I came to the big city alone, stayed at a house with 6 other housemates. I rented a small room with another roommate for few months, got a full time waitress job, eventually saved up enough to move out and rent a small studio. Then eventually got a study loan, went to college, graduated and moved to another country to begin my career. 10 years later, I got a degree, 2 houses, a husband, and savings. I believe one can get out of poverty. You just have to sacrifice a lot of things, and that include family if necessary.
These people look like your average leftist anarchist who think that working is too much hassle for them. They are lucky to even get money from the government because from countries like mine you get nothing unless you are like 50% disabled or something and that money is peanuts. I, too started from nothing, my father got into an accident when I was 13, and he couldn't work anymore, and we had a huge loan to repay for the house, we almost lost the house if my mother didn't work. I had dreams of studying abroad, and they were cut off when this happened. I had to work at the merchant navy because my parents didn't have enough money to send me to study in a university, so I had to work in a ship for years to afford myself an education which I did, and now I'm working full time at a yacht agency getting a good salary. You are correct that you need to sacrifice things, but these people dont want to, they believe they are entitled to free money just for existing and doing nothing.
La rupture familiale te met vraiment dans cette situation de détresse financière et d'isolation sociale . C'est dégueulasse.
C'est pour ça qu'il ne faut pas juger aux gens
C'est horrible c'est sur le point de m'arriver y'en a vraiment qui font des enfants comme si c'était adopter un hamster en animalerie
@@Imran69140 Oui, malheureusement...
@@Imran69140 Si tu veux en parler, n'hésite pas! Tu n'es jamais complètement seul(e)! ^^
@@Imran69140 sans compter sur les hamsters qui pensent que tous leur ai dû. Qu ils tournent dans leur roue et acheté un pack de bière
Souvent les ruptures familiales, c' est terrifiant, là t es vraiment seul et si tu galères, t as intérêt à être fort...courage et respect pour tout ces gens et vive les minimas sociaux.
Pire que la famille dans mon expérience, le milieu du travail, sans pitié.
@@lioneldemun6033 Le travail, c’est dur mais l’ambiance au travail, c’est atroce. Le sabotage, les faux témoignages, les on dit, les rumeurs, les gens ne respectent ni les autres, ni leur travail, ni la loi. Y-compris des syndicalistes. C’est n’importe quoi. Mais supporter ça est le prix à payer pour ramener un salaire.
La vie est sans pitié alors stop la pleurniches victimaire
@@lebusraconte3040 Bravo vous avez exactement decrit mon vécu dans une bonne partie de mes 40 ans de carrière ( heureux retraité depuis 4 ans).
@@richardhoyau936 c est sur, faut tout accepter...
She is unbeliveabely beautiful.
Surviving!! Below poverty!!!! I'm questioning my whole existence right now.I thought I was from middle class but after seeing this I think I'm not even living.
I need to get the hell out of my country😭
lol. same
France government gives 500€ every month for her to live.
In Greece , you work more than 8 hours a day, and still you are paid for 500-700 €.
Crazy.
She is abusing the system which was made to support people who cannot work, not able bodied young people who just dont feel like working or doing anything to improve their situations. Notice how during the video she only complains and never mentions any plans to change her situation…She should stop getting money from the state. She mentions “working sometimes” which means she does the bare minimum required by the state so she keeps getting the money. I know many young people like this, they are all narccisistic who think they are too “special” to get a regular Joe job.
@@novakattila
Maybe she can't find a job? With covid 19 loads of people were fired and are struggling... It isn't that simple a lot of people want a nice job nice income not everyone has that but even "bad jobs" aren't easy to get... Unemployment is high
@@anaseymour4556 there are a lot of jobs, but they don't want to work because they are lazy...they are desperately looking right now for workers in agriculture, warehouses, cleaning, etc...these jobs are often done by immigrants, but people like this woman are too arrogant,lazy and proud.
@@novakattila No, cut the cap she isn't abusing shit. The RSA isn't not made for people that cannot work, just for people without revenue.
@@drhelmut3467 Its the same in every country: you get money until you find a job. If you cannot find a job, you keep getting the money. You can simply just go to a job place and fuck the interview up or just get fired shortly and still keep getting the money. Many people abuse this system. Considering how many places are hiring and that all EU countries actually have a problem with filling up jobs I think her problem is that she is lazy.
I’m from Poland and I live in France. Her life now is simillar to the life in east European (post comunistic) country. When you are adult , you have a full time job and with smic you can rent a studio or even not. The rest of money is not enough to buy food for a single adult person.
Looks you haven't been in Poland for a while. First of all Poland is Central Europe not East European, second of all im 25 and can easily rent an 35m^2 in a big city in Poland + save some savings. Working full time job, so please stop bullshiting. You can live an comfort life all you have to do is stop being lazy and start educating yourself to get better job. Cheers
Because you brought your life and thinking with you. All places will be like the worst place to live. I don't want work under you.
Interesting, I live in Ireland and have a friend from Bulgaria who has just moved back there and he says he has a far better quality of life back home than he did when was here. He can buy his own home and doesn’t need to rent for life like young people here. I’m hearing a lot of people from Eastern Europe are very disillusioned with the “western dream” and are moving back now due to the cost of living.
Sure, it's wonderful to own a home in Bulgaria with money saved from work in Ireland. Do you think it's possible to buy a home in Bulgaria with an average Bulgarian salary? Bulgarian brothers, please explain him what you can rent and buy for minimum Bulgarian sallary (311€ per month) 🤣. I know that my retirement in Poland will also be wonderful, especially when my money comes from renting out the flats I bought with my salary in France 😉
@@ruru-1993 When you come back to Poland at least know where it is geographically located. What's your salary in France that allowed you to buy flat's in Poland?
and is this the rich Europe they're talking about?it's funny, I feel sorry for you. come to civilized Russia, here everyone has their own house for 2 pieces,cars, salaries are very good, we will be glad to see you, our people are kind and good, there are few migrants, everything is fine.
Serb, apartments blocks you mean. Having said that the choice is great and it all up to money. many white-collar workers choose to live in spacious houses since there is no space shortages in Russia. Social welfare system won't let you to stay on benefits forever unless the person qualified disabled. The living costs are considerably less if you are moderate. Fuel and gas is cheap (and there is no gas meters!!) and flats stay warm by central heating throughout cold months. I heard stories of "russians struggling" after February events, however it is not so! Life goes on as usual albeit without fancy foreign trips, but there is lots of places to visit inside Russia. Food pices have grown a bit. BUT comparing to what Europe is facing (77 present gas prises rise by October!) it is nothing. Ordinary europeans now are facing tough times it seems 😓 combining to farmers crisis and political agenda (eat less) the future seems bleak. Russia meanwhile broke up with the world economic protocol on farmers and thanks to EU who restricted export has become self-sufficient. Blessing came in disguise 👍
"Civilized Russia" I stopped there laughing.
@@drhelmut3467 keep laughing. Btw I am a "Doctor" of science but do not brandish it on UA-cam 🤣🤣 What an idiotic idea
I met a poor girl in my middle school years. His dad killed himself so his wife and daughter wouldn’t die, that the government would give them more money and help. Apparently, both of her parents were working but his dad got fired and since he was missing a leg he couldn’t find a job w a good pay.
It’s weird to see the different standards for poverty like this.
i work for 10 hours every single day for 300 euros a month here in north africa, i work hard for that shit.
That is disgusting, WTO etc cause your poverty, but also in say France or Australia, basic subsistence requires maybe 4 times as much in currency, because basic rent etc so much more expensive
You are way fortunate compared to other people living in a 3rd world countries where govt does not support anything...People really find ways to survive without complaining...Your life is way better compared to others...Be grateful of what you have..
I currently moved to a third world country, and what I realised here is if you go broke you fucked, the govt is too poor to support you, but here rhe thing there is alot of humanity here, people give away alot of charity its a part of there tradition and thr main thing is family, most still live with there families and pool there resources and thr parents actually get offended if the kids try to leave.
Then give your best and emigrate to Canada,there is many ways,make some money and go,it's easy!
@@wildheartxxx135 I come from a privileged background and I feel a since of responsibility, to use my privilege and make my country a great country to live in. Abandoning my country and leaving to Canada would just add to the already existing brain drain
Now people will know Paris is not romantic. France is not just about Louis Vuitton, Chanel and high fashion. There's actually poverty! This video breaks all the stereotypes surrounding the romanticisms of France.
I believe investing yourself to education will give u a bit better life in the future or else we must stay with our parents to save money, nothings wrong with it. But yeah this is west culture. Individualism .
I work also hard as I can. I clean toilet ,houses just to to get the amount of the savings I wanted. 🙃 now I'm finally done with cleaning ,now i can finally finance my self in college this year.
Education is the key but without patience and perseverance it won't work.
Good job! She stated she left her parents at age 17, meaning that she didnt even obtain her high school diploma :/
Thats a tought position to be in...
How it;s possible? I was living in France for 3 years, I don't even know french. Yet, i had no problem at all with finding job.
People are lazy
In what sector did you work ?
Roaches will survive anywhere…
Get a job at McDonald's maybe? Anywhere will do, save up a surplus for a year and then try to push whatever business you were trying to do.
@mikayla There are tons of McDonald’s everywhere in France, there’s literally 9 in Rennes
@mikayla so then she walks 30 minutes, life is hard, if you want it easy then these are the results you get.
I'm not sure about France but McDonald's in Portugal only hires in Part-time and under 25 years old. The only ones working full time and older are managers.
Gurosama you make me laugh,that she works in mcdonald for some misery money,terrible!You gave shitty advice seriously,she should emigrieren to Canada,Australia or New Zeeland,ONLY so she will fix her leben! Europe is anyways nowdays a dump,a hole!
@mikayla I was giving McDonald's as an example. Lidl, Aldi, whatever she can find.
People commenting on how this is middle class in other countries fail to note the context. I visited France just last week and I have very little and not regular income. There were days where I only bought snacks because all the food was expensive. France is a really, really expensive country. 500 euro a month are almost nothing because the cost of living is so high.
Many places can't afford to smoke a pack of cigarettes for twelve hours of work.
Thank you for this beautiful work you're doing! Here in France we don't hear about how the poorer people live, because TV is controlled by billionaires.
Courage à tous ceux et celles qui vivent des situations difficiles
Je suis issus d'une famille ou ma mère était mère au foyer et mon père ouvrier agricole
Il faut avoir la rage pour s'en sortir diplômé bac+5 je gagne en 1 mois ce qu'on mon père touchait en 1 an et je ne suis pas plus heureux que l'ont été mes parents.
Tu travailles dans quoi ?
@@stem7141 feur
@@Dylonely_9274 😂😂
et oui l'argent ne créer pas un but a la vie, c'est meme a accelerateur de vices
Oui mais bon ça aide quand même un peu d'avoir de l'argent ça permet de voir au delà du 15 du mois
This is exactly what “under the line of poverty” looks also like in Spain. The government gives you a minimum aid of 530€ (I thought in France it was higher but this girl says almost 500€) up to 800€ in certain regions in the north, a family of 4 can easily get above 1.200€ if both parents are unemployed and they still get other benefits, food bank access, etc… There is even a famous video of a food bank in a certain city where people got many full bags while they got there to pick the food with Mercedes and Audis, which created a lot of controversy.
Of course there is people who struggles but the government and social aid won’t let you without money nor food nor health care nor education… I think it’s the same for all 1st world countries except the USA which doesn’t have free health care.
Real poverty happens in all of the other continents, especially in Africa where hundreds of millions work 12-14 hours a day for a couple of euros / dollars which are barely enough to feed their families. We mostly consider “poverty” in Europe as the ones who can’t afford the latest iPhone / Samsung or world travelling but real poverty means that you don’t know what you’ll eat tomorrow nor having access to clean water and unfortunately that still happens to HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS worldwide.
You touched on it slightly, but Its worse in the USA. This girl can get a stipend from the state to survive. In the US, she wouldn't even get that. If you are working full time and not making ends meet, the government might (emphasis, might) help you with food stamps, but it will take you months to go through the motions to qualify. If you're in a republican controlled state, you may be lucky to even get that. Those states don't want our homeless people to survive, much less live comfortably. If you die by living rough, you're no longer the state's problem, so republican controlled states, especially in the southeast, do everything they can to encourage the homeless to leave and be someone else's problem.
When I was in Paris working for a tech company we were shocked to find out that 40k EUR a year puts you at the top 10% earners in the Paris area. That is not even enough to buy your own house there, maybe a little studio.
I almost felt bad for her... then I saw the piercings and the people she mix with.... then everything became clear to me
People she mix with are OK. Piercings are not OK.
Poverty is living on the street with no food or money. This is a slap in the face for real people who face poverty.