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That's weird. I grew up in a big house and my parents had plenty of cars, meat and travel, but I wasn't particularly happy. I'm happier now in my small apartmen
by timthelion 3y ago
That's weird. I grew up in a big house and my parents had plenty of cars, meat and travel, but I wasn't particularly happy. I'm happier now in my small apartment. I don't really understand how a big house will make you happy. Really, doing electronics is more fun in a hacker space than at home, and you can always go to a park.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoThat's nice that a very spartan lifestyle is good for you. The house doesn't make me happy. Not hearing my neighbors music blasting through the floor at 2am makes me happy. Not hearing my neighbors screaming at each other every day makes me happy Being able to paint my walls any color I want makes me happy. Having a plot of land I can dig up and plant stuff on or build a workshop on makes me happy. Having a place that is my own that I can do basically anything I want with makes me happy. Renting apartments is shit. Even condos, which you own on paper but cannot just do whatever you like with, sucks. Hacker spaces don't exist everywhere by the way, and the ones I have been to sucked.
- timthelion 3y agoAha, sorry for my mistake. I didn't mean "apartment" to mean that you have to rent.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoFunny enough, owning the apartment doesn't actually fix all of the other problems of living in an apartment. I don't want every facet of my life outside of my home to be public and shared. I want a private yard, not a communal park and garden. I want a private shop, not a public maker space. I want peace and quiet and a bit of distance from my neighbors, not shared walls. Because I've lived the apartment life and it honestly did make me want to kill myself. I don't know how people just live like that.