Many says they are hard up. Not so easy to look for money and many are in hunger. This lines has long been heard before the pandemic and that time you could observe that malls are full, wharf are full of travelers, in bus terminals passengers are swirling and airports are full of tourist. It is only this time of pandemic that this number of passengers and tourist are no longer visible, the numbers are declining. What can you say before pandemic, are the people hard up? Does many live in hunger?
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Before the pandemic, some people already live in hunger and does not have financial stability. But, it got worse now because of the pandemic.
Yes before the pandemic many are in hunger and in poverty line but you could also observe of many construction of houses and building and many people travel abroad for vacation. These are the people complaining of being hard up, in financial crisis. You will wonder are they poor or pretending to be poor.
Is not about what you earn per month but how high the costs for a living are. You need to earn a lot to pay a rent of 700 euros a month, the electricity of 145 euros a month, health insurance of 145 a month and there are all kinds of taxes, those bills need to be paid. You are not allowed to say: no thanks I do not want electricity or insurance... After I paid for everything I have no money left for food, clothes, holidays, going out, etc. I would never take a loan to have a vacation abroad. It's not relaxing to know once home you can not pay it off but to some people it is. All homeowners have one or two loans at the bank and this means you pay for about 40 years or longer. You need a job and if you lose your job you lose your house. If you lose your job you need to sell your house, hopefully someone is willing to buy it. If not you have no money. With a house, property you will never get social help. I noticed too there are still new buildings. Houses and business centers but these are not private. Some organization builds them and hopes someone will buy or rent it. For sure there are still people who have money to spend or do not care about debts.
We thought those tourist travelling in another country are rich enough, and wander to unwind their self on the hectic schedules of their business. Or that is their privilege as workers in a company to have a vacation in a year shouldered by the company, or they were deducted monthly from their salary, a certain amount intended for vacation once a year, and used it in other countries where the value of their money is higher than that of the country they choose.
You can forget about that. Most have hardly a dollar to spend. Poor basterds looking rich and playing the king abroad. The real rich will not visit countries like yours.
Aahhh. . . I see, we thought like that, it is you who open our eyes to reality.
No fake king will tell abroad he is a complete loser and has bills and debts waiting for him. It's not very attractive to be a King that way. They want you to bow for them.
There are always hungry people but a part of them spends money on the wrong things and doesn't care about priorities. It's the same with tourists. They take a loan at the bank to be able to travel and abroad people believe they are rich because they celebrate and buy. If we all play tourist in their own country, support our own people it helps too. The pandemic, lockdown is an excuse many use but the reality is the economical crises is there for at least 20 years, same with bad health care, low salaries, high taxes and the high prices for healthy food.