A Glaring Problem with the Fables world?
The Fabletown Fables have supposedly been living in New York for centuries. How is that a.) They haven't been able to adapt and find meaningful employment after all that time, and b.) the Fables (much less the Fabletown administration) don't know everyone else who lives in what appears to be a small and isolated community? How does Bigby have no prior knowledge of the Tweedle brothers, for example? Do Fables spend long periods of time in some comatose state?
I haven't read the comics, maybe it is explained better there?
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Not all fables live in fabletown so the tweedles could have just gotten there recently
Well, the answer to B could be that some of them don't always remain in Fabletown. They drift away, live among the mundies, and sometimes come back later. For instance, Prince Charming has been living in Europe for a very long time by the start of the comics. Jack lived out west for a while, etc. There is a story set during the old west where Bigby is sent to go find Jack and the two have never met each other at this point. Bigby even asks Snow if she's sure that this guy is a Fable, or something along those lines.
So, they're a close-knit society, but they aren't always in direct contact with each other. And if normal people lose track of each other after a few years or a decade, imagine what it would be like after a couple of hundred.
Not all of them can live within their means. Some have trouble keeping employment.
Fabletown isn't an incredibly small community. Some people never interact with the administrators. Plus there are several generations of Fable children and grandchildren that were born in Fabletown and have never seen the Homelands. It's a lot of people.
Fabletown itself is basically a single block of one street. Numerous Fables have apartments out in the Mundy sections of the city. The small administration isn't necessarily going to know upon sight people that they've never seen or that have never even bothered to venture toward Bulfinch Street.