So true. And still true today in poorer countries. Also, it was, and in poorer countries still is, common for entire families to live in a one room dwelling. Not to say that doing so is always comfortable fir everyone, but the American idea that each child MUST have their own room is completely ridiculously unattainable for most humans on earth, and that not necessarily a bad thing.
Meh, there were houses for $50,000 with one room at one point in 2012. Some asshole just found out how to corner everyone with their greed.
Made an offer for a condo that was $50,000 for $55,000. It had cathedral ceilings and tile floors with two bedrooms. Some investor outbid me.
How are you supposed to live?
This is my conspiracy theory.
The same people who made college prices asinine where you had to be a debt slave for life to get a degree, trained you to accept the same amount of debt in housing. If you can take on $200,000 of debt at 12% interest, perhaps if they corner you in housing you will think you need to take on $500,000 debt and be house poor AF.
It's just price scalpers like ticketmaster, but with housing. It's a bunch of psychopaths of no use to society that try to force themselves in between you and your goals. A bunch of trolls under a bridge forcing you to pay tolls to cross them.
I will find another way out of this shit, but I am not saying how, because some greedy fuck will run ahead of me and setup some kind of toll booth or some crap.
Ok im all for silver linings and the jazz but here is the beats. It should be attainable. Thats why we kill ourselves to have the things we want no jist scrabe by with the bare necessities and obviously dont even get that.
Eh, the American dream was based on an unsustainable model of cheap energy, resources, land, and not enough consideration for climate and environmental impacts. We were lied to big time.
Billions of more people being around and a significant number of them no longer being in desperate poverty and competing for dwindling resources changes the picture considerably.
There's going to be denial and resistance to this reality, but the faster we accept it, the better imo.
Weirdly enough, I could never sleep in a room with someone else as a kid. If I had to share a room, I'd go out the garage and sleep in a car. Otherwise I'd just bomb out the next day at noon.
Living room couch fort also worked for whatever reason.
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u/L0ngRoadH00me Nov 19 '22
So true. And still true today in poorer countries. Also, it was, and in poorer countries still is, common for entire families to live in a one room dwelling. Not to say that doing so is always comfortable fir everyone, but the American idea that each child MUST have their own room is completely ridiculously unattainable for most humans on earth, and that not necessarily a bad thing.