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Cake day: January 18th, 2026

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  • I may just go out on limb and suggest that the fall from hanging on and having a bed and a roof to being in the streets is a lot scarier in countries that have high contrast segments.

    In richer countries, the moment the bills pile up, there’s a crescendo of loosing everything and having no recourse.

    In poorer countries family and community is a lot more important and the fear of falling out of society may be lesser.

    My wife and I ended up in London. We have no kids and probably never will because we’re at that age. It would take 3 months of one of us not having a job, for us to start really freaking out.

    Her family is from Sri Lanka. They’re not rich by any definition but the whole family looks out for each other.

    3 months without a job there, with that kind of support, isn’t something that will switch your life from an apartment to the streets.