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[Mort Divine]

Living in the poor world makes you appreciate what you have once you hit "comfortable living."

Fuck, being homeless makes it even MORE apparent what you have if you ever get out of it.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

thinking about all the armenians stuck in poverty back home makes me appreciate everything I have.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

thinking about all the armenians stuck in poverty back home makes me appreciate everything I have.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

rolling your eyes at what? where we grew up, it was a big deal if you owned any sort of a vehicle.

Although I suppose I was much happier as a little kid in armenia than I am now here in the states.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

rolling your eyes at what? where we grew up, it was a big deal if you owned any sort of a vehicle.

Although I suppose I was much happier as a little kid in armenia than I am now here in the states.

:Smug:

You just proved my point, me bucko.

Edit: I was rolling my eyes because every other day you bitch about how your dad doesn't make enough money for your liking.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

:Smug:

You just proved my point, me bucko.

we weren't exactly poor in armenia though, we had a car and probably the biggest apartment in the building (back there you owned apartments), my father gave me all the toys/candy etc... that I ever really wanted. I think everybody just believes they were happier as a little child than they are as an adult.

Edit: I was rolling my eyes because every other day you bitch about how your dad doesn't make enough money for your liking.

those frustrations have now dissappeared as he has made some major strides with his contracting work. It was mostly a misunderstanding anyways, I thought he was just being lazy when in reality this contracting work could and should bring in very large amounts of money. I have extremely high expectations of my father because he has done the same to me in every step of my life.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

I dunno, I hated my childhood.

I had no friends in the neighborhood because my parents were paranoid bible pounders. I remember being bored alot. Fuck toys.

Edit: don't forget about the indoctrination that still haunts me.

 

[Koude Haat]

honestly you guys derailed the fuck out of this thread.

 

[~Derek~]

>_> He does deliver furniture though, so that may be a reason for the exception. He was going to school to become a lawyer, but stopped to let his (then) wife go, and whatever.

Oh well. 65k a year total is enough to get us by with HD cable, food in our fridge, high speed internet, 4 computers in the house, a PS2, Wii, HD big screen TV, decent birthdays and Christmases, etc.

So really so long as you make that much in a state with a shitty economy like Michigan you're well off.

Yeah, economy sucks here too. My Dad doesn't make much as a Cop, like 25K, Mom makes like 15K working for the state doing cashier stuff, but I guess if we lived in a bigger city we'd make more money.

 

[MetalAges]

Yeah I jumped off the train long ago knowing it was heading for that gap in the tracks!

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

BPP (mod on bodybuilding.com) is some sort of a cop (not sure exactly what) and says he makes 80-90 k a year but he lives near chicago from what I can remember.

 

[~Derek~]

Well, my Dad just has a high school education and works for a town of 2000. If he lived somehere like Nashville he'd probaly make more.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

do you guys live in the middle of nowhere?

 

[Evil?]

Dave you come across like you think making all of this money is just the easiest thing in the world. It is really quite annoying.

 

[Mort Divine]

do you guys live in the middle of nowhere?

I live in a small city outside of Detroit, so in my case no. Michigan is just in a shitty economic situation right now.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I live in a small city outside of Detroit, so in my case no. Michigan is just in a shitty economic situation right now.

in that case, your 100 k house is probably equivalent to a 300 k house here.

 

[~Derek~]

Yes, I actually don't even live in a town, I live between 2, one 5 miles away the other a mile or 2. I live 2 hours from Memphis and Nasville and 45 minutes from the CD store/mall.

 

[Evil?]

I live in a small city outside of Detroit, so in my case no. Michigan is just in a shitty economic situation right now.

MI is totally sucking right now.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Alberta is in a huge economic boom, so the housing costs are extortionate. We have immigrants camping in tents everywhere.

 

[AchrisK]

All the money in the world can't buy respect. I respect poor people. The rich can die. Not out of jealousy, but out of pure contempt for thier phony personalities, stupid idealogies and gay ass expectations. "Rich" and "Metalhead" don't sync up so well.

That's a lot of simple-minded generalization for one person. Poor doesn't automatically = respectable. A lot of poor people are more materialistic than rich people because all they think about is the stuff they don't have and they whine about how the man is keeping them down. A lot of poor people make a career out of leaching off the rest of us through welfare and other government aid. That's not respectable. Also rich doesn't always = fake and blind. Yeah, a lot of richer people have no idea, but there are good people who worked hard and have not considered themselves as superior.

Yeah, I am more comfortable with mid to lower middle class people though.

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