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Wait how do you live off of that? IIRC you live on your own, right?
No country particularly wants somebody it’s paying pensions for itself, although Russia is very happy to take you into the army(hope you like дедовсчина) and plenty of third world countries don't have the capacity to exclude you if you just fly in and hang around(do you speak Swahili?), they’re not cutting you a check.
A few hundred a month from the state of Alaska on top of the SSI (only while in AK), plus a rent subsidy (via Alaska Housing — which is basically a quango — which is, in turn, ultimately funded by HUD). That said, I still pay over $600 in rent after that subsidy, and when you add on utilities, phone, internet, etc., I'm left with about $500/mo. for food, hygiene, laundry, clothing, transportation, etc., in a place where the cost of living is something like 23% higher than the national average.
So, basically, by barely scraping by. (Hence why I've asked in the past for ideas of ways to make a few extra bucks, to ease things slightly without sending me over the "welfare cliff.")
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It's дедовщина and that's for young recruits in the peacetime army. What you'd get in the current army is way, way, way worse (but probably won't last long - people who don't know anybody and can't contribute much to their unit materially or otherwise are the first to be used in the infamous "meat assaults").
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Not when you are a diagnosed schizophrenic.
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