Does Gold have a bank account? I assume he does and can access his money. How did he keep all the money from the rent he collected in SB? In his safe? lol.
Then again, when we saw him ”6 weeks later” he looked dirty and disheveled, like he had been sleeping on the street. Without references, ID or access to a bank account, it would be hard to get a place to rent, and without Neil’s keys (or ID?), it would be hard to take over Neil’s place.
I am with others who have said that he is not surviving well at all, and he is selling off some of the valuable stuff on him to survive.
I hope the show goes into how he is surviving on the other side, I think it would be important to see how the fairy tale characters would cope in our world outside of SB, so that we can see if they are better off in SB, our world outside of SB or back in the worlds from where they came. Not going to hold my breath, though.
Keeper of Regina's bravery