Goomba38 wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> Melba's Jammin' <Melba's Jammin' >>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Leila Abu-Saba McLeod provides a link to an interesting story (and
>>> interesting comments) he http://bedouina.typepad.com/, the
>>> March 10 entry.
>>
>> I'd bet the SF Gate has embellished this story a little. A single
>> person, with a baby, and a car, and an apartment (the same apartment
>> she had when she was doing OK) cannot live in Oakland on
>> $1,200/month.
>>
>> 'Jane' (or the reporter) is probably a con-artist.
>>
>> -sw
>
> Unless perhaps the Father of said baby or ex-spouse provides that in
> some arrangement. Then the $1200/month might stretch for other living
> expenses?
>
That's possible. And I applaud the woman for making sure she buys good food
for herself and her child, not fast food crap (which, when you think about
it, really isn't cheap). Still, I haven't hopped on the
all-organic-all-the-time bandwagon, either.

Jill