Originally Posted by
contango
In response to Machka's post, technically I'd agree that "destitute" is a more appropriate word although generally whenever I've heard someone talk about someone being "homeless" it's not used in a context of someone who chose to give up their home so they could go on an extended tour without having to pay the mortgage while they were gone.
We very carefully come up with whole explanatory paragraphs to avoid saying, "Yes, we're homeless and unemployed (a
nd we're travelling the world)" because of the bad connotations those words have.
