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While I am sympathetic to cost of living issues, I think describing moving as "traumatizing" is being quite overdramatic. As a kid, I moved from the Bay Area to

While I am sympathetic to cost of living issues, I think describing moving as "traumatizing" is being quite overdramatic. As a kid, I moved from the Bay Area to another country at age 8 because of my Dad's job, changed schools again for 7th and 8th grade then moved again to a 3rd city for high school. While there was definitely an adjustment period at each new place, I think learning to deal with new environments is a pretty useful life skill to have, and as an adult I would active seek to have my future kids live in a few different places. Yeah yeah, it's always a lot nicer to do that because I have a choice, I get that. I just think that level of hyperbole doesn't help the discussion at all.

kafkaesq 10y ago
But were your parents evicted? Aside from actual physical violence or harassment, it's hard to think of an experience less traumatic and disruptive for a family.
- jimmywanger 10y ago
  > Aside from actual physical violence or harassment, it's hard to think of an experience less traumatic and disruptive for a family. Think harder. How about not being about to get food and watching family starve in front of you? (see Venezuela and DPRK). How about watching your grandmother die of inoperable cancer over several months, to the point to where you have to wear earplugs to sleep over her moans of pain? (happened to me) There is nothing inherently traumatic about being evicted. There is something traumatic and disruptive about losing a job, a loved one, or even a pet. What part of the first world do you live in that you categorize all this as a "disruptive and traumatic" event?
  - wglb 10y ago
    This comment and many of your others are over the line with respect to the guidelines. The "think harder" part in particular.
    - jimmywanger 10y ago
      Which others? And how is "think harder" problematic? It's like some priviledged first world teenager exclaiming that they have to study hard for some test, and it's the WORST THING EVER. There are way more worse things. Think harder
      - kafkaesq 10y ago
        Sorry -- getting evicted is not like "having to study hard for some test."

kafkaesq 10y ago

But were your parents evicted? Aside from actual physical violence or harassment, it's hard to think of an experience less traumatic and disruptive for a family.

jimmywanger 10y ago
> Aside from actual physical violence or harassment, it's hard to think of an experience less traumatic and disruptive for a family. Think harder. How about not being about to get food and watching family starve in front of you? (see Venezuela and DPRK). How about watching your grandmother die of inoperable cancer over several months, to the point to where you have to wear earplugs to sleep over her moans of pain? (happened to me) There is nothing inherently traumatic about being evicted. There is something traumatic and disruptive about losing a job, a loved one, or even a pet. What part of the first world do you live in that you categorize all this as a "disruptive and traumatic" event?
- wglb 10y ago
  This comment and many of your others are over the line with respect to the guidelines. The "think harder" part in particular.
  - jimmywanger 10y ago
    Which others? And how is "think harder" problematic? It's like some priviledged first world teenager exclaiming that they have to study hard for some test, and it's the WORST THING EVER. There are way more worse things. Think harder
    - kafkaesq 10y ago
      Sorry -- getting evicted is not like "having to study hard for some test."