Tommen Baratheon
1+1=3
- Dec 26, 2023
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Thank you for putting things in perspective. I don't live in a big city and in 20 years I've only seen one homeless guy here. In the capital of my province, in Leuven and in Brussel I've seen some beggars. At the train station in Brussel there were homeless people, mostly illegals.Unfortunately, among the members of the forum there are homeless people or people who do not live at home, but with relatives and friends. I assume that they use some publicly available internet, a telephone of maybe €50 and think every day what they will eat tomorrow. You have to understand that many people live hard and in poverty I don't understand how it is not clear to you. I am a businessman and I don't have these problems, but I can understand these people.
But if you're a legal resident your employer will pay the first month if you're sick, then the sick fund takes over. If you're unemployed you'll get money (under certain conditions). And there's something called 'leefloon' (wellfare?) which is the lowest amount of money that a person gets, for instance if they don't get money for unemployment.
Growing up my family didn't have a lot of money. When I was 8 my bipolar father was in and out of hospitals and my mother (no job) had to raise 3 kids on her own. But she taught us how to save, so maybe in that way 400 euro doesn't seem a lot to me. However if you convert it into old Belgian francs, then we're talking about 16.000 francs and that used to be a lot of money. The euro has us all fooled...
Sorry for the off-topic; I just wanted to explain. I didn't mean any disrespect.