A few years ago, Julie Wilson Nimmo upped sticks and moved to Los Angles. She and her family – husband Greg Hemphill and their two boys – spent seven months in Westwood near Beverly Hills.
There was a lot she loved about it, but it also made her uncomfortable. For the Scottish visitor, it was hard to reconcile herself to such disparities of wealth.
“We were house-sitting in a friend’s house in a really lovely area,” she says. “We were really grateful for it, but the thing I could never get my head around was you would never see the homeless. But if you went out for dinner, you’d be sitting out, and there’d be somebody with a trolly crossing the road. One of the neighbours said, ‘We just don’t see that.’ It never sat right with me. The haves and the have-nots divide was so massive.” [READ MORE]