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by closeparen 3163 days ago
“Relative squalor” is roommates or an hour-plus commute on unpleasant public transit, to people who are strongly averse to those things. Are they starving? No. But it’s pretty shocking compared to growing up in a place where you have to be destitute to need roommates or a commute over 20 minutes. (People still do those things, of course, but voluntarily).