| In
New York
we had to walk a lot, because the metro stations were
unbearably hot. As a result we got very tired.
There was a
lot of poverty in the midst of all the ostentatious wealth of the
big city. |
I
spoke to a woman collecting metal cans from rubbish bins. She
told me her problems – her mentally defective son caused
trouble with the neighbours, so she was continually being
evicted from the place they were staying in. Each metal can
was worth 5 cents, so on a good day she could earn $20 to $25.
I wondered how she could live on that. Life in
New York
is fairly expensive, even by British standards. |