listen, i could have applied for a job with the government, and bought a nice house in the suburbs...

....only to have a family of four with with two teenagers, all smokers, including a pothead mother, move in next door, and have smoke parties outside all of the time, and smoke through open windows.

it would be easier to get up and move if i had more cash, granted. but, that's what the case was for - i can afford to move, that's not the problem. and, i'm in fact in more or less exactly the same situation i'd be in, even if i did have a stable income.

that's why i did the right thing in fighting back.

the issue is not my income, it's the city. i continue to be astounded by the smoking rates, here, and the deficit of healthy housing, in an era where the simple reality is that the vast majority of people think that smoking anything is retarded.

and, i might point out the following: if i had a job i couldn't just get up and leave town.