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Lilian rents an apartment in San Jose that she shares with her brother and boyfriend. The rent is $2,550, and she works overtime as much as she can in order to get by. Her main concern is retirement. She has no savings and so doesn’t know how she will get by when she can’t work anymore. She has also had several problems with her landlords, the most egregious the fact that they have asked her to take care of their lawn and pool while they were away and then not compensated her.
I have my brother and my boyfriend is laid off. So I mostly do everything. I receive only maybe $1300 or #1400 here. I do overtime so. To compute it, it's like two-thousand something only for the rent. And I'm really struggling. My brother only gives me $625 per month.
My sister lived in Bay Area already. So that's where I started. At my sister's place. But then it's two hard to mingle one family to another family to another. It's hard. That's why we looked for another place, I looked for another place. It's quite hard but, I'm struggling but I can make it. I did it. But we can not have a lot of savings. The savings, it's all out. Food is expensive too. It's the Silicon Valley, so. Oh my God, if I hear somebody, some places too that "oh, I'm just renting", like my daughter's living in Arkansas. She's renting only $700 for a huge, big house compared to mine. So, maybe by retirement, I might go over there with my daughter. Because it's really hard, if you receive only a few a month, and then you retire, what will happen to you? Nothing.
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