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thrudvangr t1_iu9oiof wrote

After seeing some responses on here, I can see that. Its such shit and easy for ppl who arent in this situation to dismiss as a choice. It reminds me of a thread on FB about ppl working minimum wage jobs where ppl were saying stupid things like "well just get a better job" or "just get into a trade union" and all this stupid "advice".

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cpujockey t1_iu9plcp wrote

Well that's something that the right and left constantly do to each other if we are going to break it down by politics. But this is kind of a universal thing no matter where people lay in the spectrum of politics.

You have people doing the whole learn the code thing, and then you have folks going learn to weld.

Frankly I'm under the belief that mobile home parks do have a certain value and appeal for folks and that should be not discounted. After all, they are quite nice communities and they are pretty affordable.

And I understand a lot of folks are of the impression that renting an apartment is the best way to live because it affords them the luxury of being in the center of commerce and where people are but that's not always the case for the folks that want to have a lot of hobbies that are loud like woodworking and such. Like I can't rent an apartment and run a benchtop planer without pissing off all my neighbors in an apartment building, But I can do such things in a trailer park with nobody batting an eye. In fact sometimes some of the neighbors come and hang out and talk shop with me so it's kind of cool.

These are just different lifestyles for different people just as much as some people go into trades and some people go into higher ed. I understand the frustration of both sides of the equation as I've been on the receiving end of a lot of people telling me that I'm an idiot for not going to school yet I'm doing quite well for not going to school. It's not often you hear about somebody that had issues learning how to read and write and was in special education reaching a pretty senior position in information technology without a college degree.

Different strokes for different folks.

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