Yes, that makes sense. They wouldn't spend a lot of money. This makes a lot of sense, actually. Yes, I could see a hardworking immigrant making many more financial sacrifices that the marginal (or even the average) US citizen is simply not willing to make. Guys at the warehouse, half of their take home pay that they got every Friday, they would have drunk it by Monday. So many of them couldn't even understand how I made my tuition payments. I told them that is where my paychecks went and they called me a slave.sardis wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:03 pmThey don't spend alot of money. They get initial help with healthcare, but their employer then takes over that cost. When I was in Charlotte our church helped these Myanmwar refugees who were persecuted for being Christian. They never go out to eat, not even fast food. They get clothes from goodwill and donations. They don't own a car initially. The employer usually comes in a van and picks them up. So after 4-5 years some of them were out of the Section 8 housing they were put in and had purchased a house and a car on their own. The house is still in marginal neighborhoods, and they sometimes team up with two generations, but to them, they are living the dream.me wrote:They will be able to buy a home in BG in three years. Really? It's that cheap? Its that easy to get a home loan? I had friends that worked with me in a warehouse in Massachusetts for almost 5 years, and they still lived at home with their parents, and could not afford to buy anything. And that was in the late 1980s and early 1990s even. But I digress.
