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Commenter asserted they are US citizen, lost everything (so $0 to their name), and ill.

Take a quick look and note that the person in india in that situation puts them around the bottom 5% of their country, who live on less than $3 a day, commonly in mega-slums (these are the sorts of places you end up when you have absolutely nothing and unable to work) without running water and sewage running through the alley, and economic mobility back into the professional class even worse than USA.

Anyone with a room temperature IQ and a dual US-India citizenship is not moving to India as the place to be completely broke, ill, unable to work, and to go live in a slum that would make Skid Row look an absolute joke. Their story does not make any sense whatsoever. There is money or assets or property squirreled away, if there wasn't they would live on the meager assistance USA provides to citizens (even if stuck outside in a tent for awhile) before living on less than $3 a day in one of the mega slums people end up in when they are in India in that unfortunate situation.

And to be clear, I don't think commenter is lying about what they've been told. I'm not making any sort of dig at them.



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