 Okay, my name is Mark G, and I'm from Cebu, Philippines, and I live in Woodside, and I'm 27 years old. I've lived in Woodside for over a year now, but I've lived in Jersey City, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Oklahoma City. Well, in the last six years, the biggest changes of notice are the continuous hikes of prices. It's harder for me because, first of all, I don't have papers, so it's harder for me to find living spaces where they don't ask you for your history or your SS number or your background because I don't have one in this country, so it's hard for me to negotiate that. Yeah, it's also hard to find jobs, so it's hard for me to save money to find housing. For now, I get around finding employment and housing through connections or friends, people I know or acquaintances that help me or direct me to different agencies or other friends who know of positions who are open, hiring, and or vacant rooms that I could rent for cheap or below market prices. I'm from Cebu City. Yes, I do. I really miss Cebu, especially when you compare life here and there, like you have your own room, you have a car, you have a family who you could ask money from. Unlike here, there's nobody you could depend on except yourself and friends. Although being the only person here with no family in New York, I built a song group of friends that I could depend on and I have also built a larger network of people I could call on for help and I've also tried to educate myself with different agencies or different services that are mostly free or cheap in the city. Like for help, there's some, I know, a few organizations that give free testing for different kinds of diseases or just to check your general health like blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, or check if you have STDs like HIV. Like, I know some agencies also give like different trainings for free even regardless of your status here. What keeps me here, I think, is mostly the economic drive. Here in the U.S., you get jobs. Whether it be jobs that pay you less than minimum wage, that's still money and if you bring back that money to the Philippines, that's equivalent to more than what average Filipinos would earn. There's a certain sense of security because at least here you get to eat three times a day. You have housing, you have money spent on not so essential stuff in life like extra clothes. So I think that's one thing that keeps me here. You can save extra to send back home to your family. Immigrants here in the U.S. are treated differently and especially if they know you have no papers, you're more prone to abuse. I think, based my experience, it helped me to be more conscious of my rights here being around people who are also supportive of my situation but also give me support and education on different services or different rights that I have here as immigrant. As a undocumented person, that's one thing I want to share with other immigrants, both undocumented and they have rights even though it doesn't seem that way.