http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2525247-hamilton-s-penniless-millionaire/
If MMM is top tier of optimized spending/saving... she has to be the bottom. BTW, where she is renter now is one of the bad areas in Hamilton (already not the greatest city imho).
Not even a clue to just live off the interest of even a 1/4 of the winnings.
It's funny that her brother is the COMPLETE opposite... he saves a ton, works a great career as a IT manager. He tells me she literally begs him for money every so often...
The article didn't actually mention this but it was her 2nd lottery winning... she one another a few years earlier for 1 million and blew threw that is like 1yr.
Hamilton is actually an awesome city, but that's ok, it's good that lots of people don't know, keeps the housing costs down. ;)
I did some road work in Hamilton for a summer job to help pay for university. There are definitely some nice areas (up on the mountain), but much of that town sucks. Fun things that happened during that summer during the three weeks we were working in the north end of Hamilton:
- Had to explain to an angry woman that we weren't putting anything in the sewer water. This was a concern as she mentioned that she regularly drinks from the sewers.
- Got to see two 300 lb women fighting in front of their house.
- The area we were working was down by the big mills in Hamilton . . . It is the only city that we did work in where we would be covered in soot (falling from the chimneys) by the end of the day. Every day. Even my glasses would be covered in a grimy layer.
- Got to see an 80 year old woman squat down and pee on the side of the road.
- Had a guy run out of the bushes, grab the door of our work vehicle and start pulling it open while we were stopped and taking a break. Fortunately the guy driving our truck had the presence of mind to speed away before the door was opened.
- Got to see a lot of drug dealers. I knew they were drug dealers because they would approach our marked work truck and ask us if we wanted any 'rock' or 'crystal'.