Do you feel sorry for them?

According to the charity donation page that's been set up, 176 people have donated a total of £3000+ in 5 hours!
Given that my monthly income is about the same as theirs, I didn't feel the urge to donate.

Do I feel sorry for them? Yes, they're homeless and that's a horrid situation for anyone to be in. However that came to be the case I am sad for the situation they find themselves in now at an age when they might otherwise have been looking forward to retirement.
Will I be paying into their 'home' fund. Not a chance! They currently have a higher income than my son who is managing to live quite adequately and run a home. And really, to say they have had 'misfortune' is a euphemism for overspending when they had plenty of money to plan for this particular rainy day. I hope they get some good debt advice and start to cut their coat according to their cloth. They have a choice to live anywhere in the country as they have no family ties, so they could rent somewhere much cheaper than they have done in the past. In fact, even in my very expensive neck of the woods there is currently a one bedroomed flat for rent at £495, which is much cheaper than others they've rented.

Many are bringing up families on the income they are receiving. and just a touch of envy on my part ,I wish I could afford a haircut as expensive as hers looks. Is that naughty of me?

Not a huge amount. On £1400 pm they can afford a small flat. Just did quick google and they could get 1 bed in Dorset for around £400-less for a studio flat. Maybe not what they were used to but it would be a roof over their heads. 2 bed residential caravans can be very comfortable with central heating etc and are available round about £300pm. There's not really a requirement for sleeping in the airport.

Isn't there a fable by LaFontaine on this subject, based on Aesop's fable?
The Ants and the Grasshopper is its title in English.

it is best to prepare for times of necessity

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2943749/They-stay-Middle-class-homeless-couple-forced-sleep-Heathrow-losing-home-overwhelmed-generosity-strangers-offering-spare-rooms.html

After the very heartwarming story of the fundraising for pensioner Alan Barnes, I wonder if the floodgates will now open?

Why didn't they use their £190000 equity on a small property somewhere, rather than pay rent? No wonder he's a failed business man! I wouldn't do business with him!

I have met people like this in the past who live the high life and then moan as they get older, but have made little provision for retirement. X

I'm surprised they managed to get a £170,000 mortgage when he was so near to retirement age. Perhaps that wasn't a helpful move on the part of the building society. A lot of people lost their homes back then by being allowed mortgages they couldn't cope with. Nothing new here really. I wonder how all the other people who lost far more modest homes are managing now?

Still, you have to feel a bit sorry for them.

Nor me , if they are both getting a pension then they could find something to rent that they could afford. Maybe what they can 'afford' isn't up to their usual standard having lived what sounds quite an affluent life, they just have to lower their sights a bit I think..
I won't be donating thats for sure.

No I don't feel sorry for them it's obvious they have lived beyond their means over the years and now it's caught up on them...

Online donations!!!!! Yea right so would I not! ...

They both get a pension so why can't they find somewhere to live? They aren't destitute ....

I feel sorry for anyone finding themselves homeless but they don't seem to have shown much money sense, bearing in mind the salary he was earning. I don't know anything about the benefits system but surely as they are homeless they should be offered emergency accommodation by their local council?