Mike G. forwarded:
> On Behalf Of Sid Shniad
>
> Once prosperous New Yorkers forced to live under canvas in tents
>
> Mrs Berenzweig, 61, used to make $100,000 ... a year as a designer
> in New York's garment district. Now she and her husband Michael are
> down and out in 'Tent City' in Lakeland, New Jersey. ...She and Mr
> Berenzweig, a former radio producer....The couple had to leave their
> $2,000-a-month house after Marilyn lost her job. They lived with their
> 40-year-old daughter and her family for four months before a row drove
> them out.
So she was making $100K, hubby was probably in the same ballpark, the
kids are long since grown and they lived in (for NYC) a low-rent
dwelling -- not a condo with a million dollar mortgage and $2000/mo
condo fees. Now they (appear to) have an $800 tent, blew a couple of
hundred on a picket fence and $50 on a purely sculptural mailbox.
What did they do with their money when it was rolling in? No
investments, no summer cottage or lake-front lot, no Porsche? These
are "poor" people?
Maybe the Berenzweigs aren't typical of the "tent city" inhabitants
(they certianly aren't typical of big-city homelessness) but it sounds
to me more like a camp-out adventure than like homeless poverty.
Maybe I have a distorted view of things or something. I've never
lived full-time in a tent but there was a decade there when a bucket
of water on the kitchen floor would freeze up over night in January.
- Mike
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