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helloimlulu:

golden-zephyr:

deliriousnymph:

Honestly. I’d be okay with living like a hobo. 

I’m an “all or nothing” kinda girl. 

So it’s either I be horribly rich, or ignorant and poor. 
Like, living out of this, poor. With no heat or electric. Just me. :3

…… and my cat.  

Firstly, this has nothing to do with gypsies.

Secondly, being poor ≠ ignorant. I know many, many poor people who are some of the smartest, most intelligent people I’ll ever meet. Many of them haven’t even completed high school.

Money ≠ being smart. Being able to buy an education is not the same as earning one from the bottom up.

Also.

Hobo is a derogatory word—as is the word gypsy.

You might want to think about what you wish for… heat or money are not something most people can live without. Once you’ve done it, and not by choice, your ideals change. Trust me.

Most poor people who are living in situations without heat or electric would gladly slap you upside the head.

I agree with a lot of things Qristina (golden-zephyr) said here, but many people also CHOOSE to be homeless. I think it is hard for a lot of people to fathom that anyone would *choose* to be homeless, without shelter, etc. My ex boyfriend chose to be homeless when he was 16, and the only time he wasnt homeless was when he was with me. The last six months of his life, he was again homeless, by choice. Being with him I met many train hoppers, travellers of different kinds, etc…that choose to be homeless. Those that are without home by choice are often overlooked with everyone else. 

Yes, I agree. I tend to exclude those people, I suppose—because I tend to reference my own (and my families) experiences of homelessness, which were far from voluntary and were often violent and shameful, not to mention difficult for a child to handle.

I understand that yes, some people choose this way of life, but they still should not be equated with gypsies/walking peoples who are not nomadic out of choice.

That always peeved me with the ‘travellers’ in the UK who chose the lifestyle then claimed the historical discrimination as their own—they revelled in it and protested their poor lot in life—like none of it was their choice. Yet, my grandmother was routinely evicted for being gypsy.