When you talked about someone being poor, you will imagine that they live in a small apartment with very little furnitures and items.

However, study has shown that those who are living at the edge of the poverty line possess quite a number of stuffs like air-conditioning, colour TV, iPods etc. They did not give others the impression that are poor.

They have materials stuffs but in term of financial terms, they are poor. Read more of this new definition of poor here.