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  1. hobo-jo

    17% of people don't have $500 saved

    Well I guess that's your experience. Most of the people I know who live week to week (or have done so for periods of time) has been a result of having large mortgages and are put under financial pressure when one of two income earners loses their job or other circumstances means they drop...
  2. hobo-jo

    17% of people don't have $500 saved

    In some cases the fault was clearly with the family (parents), but others not so much. For example there was the family that lived off their savings for 6 months before things got ugly... if house prices plunged like they did in the US then I think even many on Somersoft would be in trouble if...
  3. hobo-jo

    17% of people don't have $500 saved

    Anyone catch the Four Corners "America's Broken Dreams"? http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/30857 Stats like this make me wonder if we could head down a similar path if we had recession and mass unemployment (families living in one bedroom motel rooms and cars, etc).
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