Reliance on others who take advantage
This is just a rant about how much I hate having to rely on on others due to being a single disabled veteran with no family or friends. It just sets me up for being ripped off at every turn. I recently had to move out of an apartment that caused me to develop asthma for the first time in my life. The owners of the fourplex rent to college students and I wanted to save money after my previous complex raised the rent too high. I discovered, after moving in, that the new owners were absentee landlords, always in Europe and no one minded their property. Sewage odors were coming from the heating vent and after complaining daily via phone they told me that if I didn't like it to move. A much better situation came available so I abandoned the unit.
I hired a moving company because I am a disabled veteran with limited mobility. I am not a stupid person, I am in graduate school and I work full time. I thought I had a good moving company, they were on Angie's list and had perfect reviews, but they took advantage of my sickness (I also had flu) and desperation to get out of my old place. My furniture was damaged and broken, my belongings were shoved and manhandled into unmarked boxes so I can't find anything, items are missing and the owners are refusing to speak with me and are ghosting me. So now I have to take legal action, which will probably not amount to anything, while starting up graduate school this week and working and trying to get my health back. I am living in a mess because I don't have help to unpack or get anything set up.
It seems that no matter what business I deal with, how much I research them, I just run into being taken advantage of. I have yet to find one honest business in the past several years, and it is getting worse. Business has been emboldened to harm, and steal as much from people as possible and get away with bad products and services. Everyone wants to emulate the wealthy and wants to get rich like they did. This currently means lying, cheating and stealing are good now, because that is how the current wealthy became billionaires, and doing the right thing is bad because being good is evil now (God only blesses the rich, so if you are poor it means God is displeased you).
I want to go to Europe so badly and escape the hell America has become. I am above the age of being allowed to immigrate, but I so wish I could escape!
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