I genuinely don't take much pleasure in my physical surroundings or in ownership of physical things I've never had the opportunity to own many things, and never developed the taste for it A lot of people talk about this as a grave injustice and harm and I'm... fine with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
I was trained to be happy living in a tiny pod, and I *am* happy living in a tiny pod Having too much space freaks me out and upsets me You can fight the Boomers over the right to own a four-bedroom house if you want but I'm different
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I mean this cuts to some really deep stuff that goes much deeper than square footage and furniture I genuinely see myself being a drifter for the rest of my life, I don't want to be part of a physical community, I don't want to be a parent and raise kids
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
These are all "millennial traits" based on "neoliberal atomization" that people want to rally around as degeneration and harm
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
Jacobin waxing lyrical about how Family is the greatest true joy the capitalists have stolen from us That the modern world took away the bucolic village where we could all be happy And I feel alienated by all this rhetoric Like, seriously pissed off by it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
It's not the most important thing in the world and so I don't bring it up that often but I mean the "childfree" part is the most important part that's had the most impact on my life, but it's all one thing I think
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
I've been fighting really hard to say "Maybe the way I am is the result of trauma but the way I am is still okay and doesn't have to change" Maybe "they" trained me to be happy being a couch potato addicted to screens but hey that's who I am
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
OMG I love this thread so much! I'm currently buying a house (lucky to live in a place where that's possible on a middling wage) and I hate it. Only doing it for 2 reasons: 1) because it's the cheapest way to live alone (only way I can afford to funnily enough)
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2) I get that I will be glad of the security of having paid a fair chunk off when I'm 60 But every time I'm asked if I'm excited, it's honestly no... if I could rent securely and afford not to have flatmates, I would do that forever. I don't WANT stuff up to and incl a house!
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Replying to @aneas_anois @MeteorsFalling
There's a lot of practical tradeoffs in the rent-vs-own conversation, and a lot of them are because we treat renters so shoddily in this country But the main tradeoff is the extremely obvious one, which is you have to live there for the rest of your life
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Or at least for a long time (the way it works if you move within like five years you likely take a major financial hit because of the transaction costs and the risk of housing values shifting to your detriment, and that's a surprisingly high percentage of homeowners)
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You're not really guaranteed to come out ahead financially unless you're there for at least ten years and a lot fewer homeowners have their life plans work out that way than they tell you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeteorsFalling
100% agree! I live in the UK so there are some differences, but renters are also treated woefully here, and I fully laugh in the face of anyone who says my house is a nice "starter home". Like part of the appeal is that I reckon I'd be happy enough in it 10, 20yrs from now
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