Don't make a mistake as stupid as mine
Real true story here, but I was in NYC, and you know how people say they took a chance and it ended up working out for them? I thought things were going to work out for me as well. So I had a couple thousand dollars and I was in New York looking for an apartment, meanwhile I have already basically burned all of the other bridges. So I had nowhere to go but I at least had money to rent something until I find a job. I do this all the time and it worked in the past. A little bit of unpredictability never hurt me. But this time my bank decided I didn't need my money, they blocked all of it, and really refused to communicate why. Spoiler: I received my money back but it took me several months to do that.
So I had no money and no place to stay, in one of the most expensive places in America, and I didn't even have time to sort things out because they froze the funds overnight. All of the apartment hunts I was planning and scheduling was for nothing, and what was I to do but move in back with my parents? I had no other choice, besides become homeless. I thought my money was gone, and even if I knew it was coming, I don't think that anybody would buy that if I went looking for a helping hand. The consequences weren't fun at all. The only positive I see is that ICE could have mistakenly apprehended me (because they do it to anybody) while they were on their crazy spree, but they didn't because I had to leave NYC and the US because all of my money was frozen by my bank.
I don't know what to make of this story but I felt like sharing it today.