but people have to make do in the context in which then live, no matter how awful it is. it is a broken country, in so many ways, but it's where our homes, family and friends are. it's a hard thing to up and leave all that, even if there are places elsewhere run much less cruelly. and even then, you've got to have the funds to be able to pull it off, which as this makes clear, aren't exactly easy to come by as you're being bled white by the system.