Our house is built out of 6 20' by 12' containers. Massively insulated with a marquee at the rear which is actually a sound reducing night club room with double breeze block walls. The entire house has a natural hay bale insulation and is completely self sufficient in electricity and water.
Built for £255,000 it is now worth £3.4 mill.
That's hillbilly.
People get trained into socioeconomic class traditions and kinda snub or feel uncomfortable with decisions that go outside of that training.
Like right now I'm butting heads with my upper middle class mother in law because shes brainwashed into the tradition of sending high school grads right to uni. Something I view as incredibly irresponsible and stupid.
My oldest graduates next year. She pretty well knows what she wants to go into. And she can live at home, work part time and do her generals at the community college. Every university here accepts community Gen Ed's.
Why....WHY spend more on generals than you have to? Plus she needs to learn the rhythm of life. Budgeting, saving, handling bills and expenses....before shes away from home spending tons of money on generals while learning to binge drink and be a communist.
Kids being sent to university before they even know wtf they want end up either dropping out, having crippling and insane student loan debt, or ending up with shit degrees or in a career they hate. No one should set foot in a uni unless they absolutely know what degree they want.
My oldest can finish gen eds....get used to balancing life and save money and then go into her program.
I know people who refused to go to college and went into trades and they are doing awesome. Their families were pissed.
I dont know why so many people think there is one way to do life....but eh. A lot is rooted in keeping up with the Jones. Look how badly that mentality fucked up Christmas. It's so marketed and material now. Who the fuck started dropping thousands on Christmas gifts for kids?! Just because you can doesnt mean you should.
The Jones are boring as fuck.