No-Lychee3965

No-Lychee3965 t1_j8fb0d7 wrote

I'm going to be honest, my wife is a big fan of the whole concept of tiny living, and even watches a whole bunch of the reality shows about people searching for tiny houses to move into, and she enjoys seeing how Nifty they look and how people get creative and versatile with the amount of space that they have...

But the honest truth is, I'm not a big fan of this idea that the only way to find affordable housing is for us Working Class People to start looking for smaller and smaller living spaces to squeeze ourselves in our families into. They can try to glamorize it and glorify it however they want, and make all of the reality TV shows about it that they want, but every time I see these people buying houses that are 300 Square ft to 900 square feet in Total Living size, the only thing that I'm reminded of is the depictions of "slave quarters" that I used to see in history textbooks back when I was in school.

This is basically what they're doing to us now. And a lot of us are too blind to actually seem to notice it. They try to make it seem fun, and quirky, and exciting and adventurous to squeeze a family of four or five people into a 300 square foot living space, while all the decent sized, three and four bedroom houses in New Hampshire's current housing market are horribly overpriced compared to basically every other state housing market in the country.

If you look down in pennsylvania, you can find a four or five bedroom house going for 85,000 to $100,000 in the housing market, compared to New Hampshire where a two bedroom or three bedroom home will run you anywhere from $250,000 to $400,000. In New Hampshire today, the only way that you can own your own home is to either buy something that's under a thousand square feet, or to have a median income of over $80,000 to $90,000 a year.

I've lived in this state my entire life, and it utterly sucks that working class citizens are getting priced out of the area; we're either forced to live in cramped, overpriced apartments, or have at least 3 to 4 different incomes to help afford all of the expenses of owning your own home, and neither of those is conducive to what the "American Dream," is supposed to be.

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No-Lychee3965 t1_j7zp44r wrote

So people have these things called Arms. And they're pretty remarkable actually, but they allow you to R E A C H across a certain plain of distance, and at the end of the arm is a joint called a "wrist," and it turns and twists and pivots, allowing you to—Yeah, you get what I'm saying.

The passenger only had to lean forwards and reach their arm out a little. This isn't rocket science. You're just assuming the worst and pretending you have a degree in forensics.

Chill.

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