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“To see some guy that’s homeless and out on the streets and has to sleep on a park
bench, or has to sleep on the concrete, to fine him, somebody that has no money or no
income, or whatsoever maybe he’s filing for disability or social security, whatever.
I see a lot of that out here. It does not make sense.”
“In Miami there are South Beach and Brickell with posh palaces, but there are poor regions
too. It is even difficult to imagine that it is possible in the USA. Children are walking
barefoot there, no windows in the houses, some people live in cars. Lots of drugs, prostitution.
We have the highest poverty rate here. About 20 % of the city lives beyond the poverty
threshold.”
“We have very big gap here in Miami between the rate of salary and the expenses. The dwellings
here are ones of the most expensive. Maybe it is because of the weather and everyone
wants to live here. But it is really very expensive to buy a house in Miami. And salaries are really
low at that. It is a heady brew.”
“The place where we used to live was not very good, and we were surrounded by not very
nice people. It was a hard place to live. It is really difficult to find a flat with
four rooms, more to it when we said that we had five children, it kind of repelled people
and they always said ‘no’ to us.”
“Everyone believes in American dream, which means to have one’s own house, work. But
what happens in reality you work diligently, but you can hardly make your both ends meet,
saying nothing about buying a house. It is almost impossible to believe that it happens
in the USA, and I can’t even imagine what happens abroad.”