At those times, you were poor in the same way that a person who goes on a camping trip experiences being homeless for a weekend. If you have the skills/connect

At those times, you were poor in the same way that a person who goes on a camping trip experiences being homeless for a weekend. If you have the skills/connections/etc to be able to trivially leave poverty when you need to then you are never truly living in poverty. You lack the vulnerability. Your story is nice, but it has nothing to do with poverty.