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Spoken like a true Californian. <grin> My great great grandfather stowed away in a mail bag to get to the US. He homesteaded in Eastern Colorado and carved a l
by sparrish 7y ago
Spoken like a true Californian. <grin>
My great great grandfather stowed away in a mail bag to get to the US. He homesteaded in Eastern Colorado and carved a living and a life where there was next to nothing.
If you can do the same, I'd say you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps.
- falcolas 7y agoIt’s easier to do in small towns, where people support you and provide a safety net. You rarely get that in bigger cities. The ability to afford a home and a family while doing blue collar work helps a lot too.
- matchbok 7y agoYou know that most homesteads were subsidized by the government, right?
- lidHanteyk 7y agoI'm gonna pull a No True Bootstrapper; if your ancestor had such a luxury as a mail bag, then they were not as hardcore as https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/vid... My ancestors survived the Oregon Trail, and so what? At some point this degenerates into, say, "spoken like a true toilet-paper user."