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BoxOfFeet ,

I feel super fortunate to have bought on 2018. I definitely couldn’t afford my house today.

Ascend910 ,

Me a gen z will probably inherit my parents 's basement

pedz ,

I live in a studio and I am “lucky enough” to have one big 11’ x 4’ window pointing southeast. Half of it can be opened but since there’s no way for air to circulate, it’s pretty useless. So when the sun is out and is shining in my only window, the place turns into an oven.

TimeNaan ,

Me, trying to shop for a laptop as a linux user:

puchaczyk ,

Be carefull with that title. There’s a lot of linux users here.

Agent641 ,

Get him!

son_named_bort ,

He couldn’t even afford to live in a dumpster.

FraidyBear ,

City, town, country, doesn’t matter because I can’t afford it!

On the real real, I work full time and make more than I ever have in my life. The apartments I live in are falling apart and the owners don’t care anymore, it used to be a nice place. My mom’s helping me look at new places because she wants me out as much as I do. There isn’t anything I can afford. My parents are going to have to help me with rent if I want to get into anything that isn’t another shithole. I’m 33, college educated, live in one of the cheapest states in the cheapest city, I work from home, I work for fuckin Apple for christ sake, I’ve done everything right and yet I still can’t afford to live.

Dkarma ,

Let me guess. American south?

FraidyBear ,

Correct

CubitOom ,

Replacing a bay window ain’t cheap.

workerONE ,

There’s two posts at the top of Lemmy that “be” using bad grammar to try to be cool. Bees are for pollenating

xx3rawr , (edited )

The worst kind of grammar nazis are those that are not even correct. lmao

workerONE , (edited )

What’s not correct? Are you upset that I made a bee joke? Yeah everyone makes mistakes here and there… If someone used ‘be’ but did it while unaware of grammar I’m totally fine with that and would never say anything. I’m not that rude. But people are just talking this way for effect and to show that they are ‘in the know’ about something and I think it’s weird.

photonic_sorcerer ,

‘Be like’ is a new phrase coined sometime in the last two decades, I think. Anyway, it’s widespread, understandable and you’re not going to stop anyone using it. Language evolves! Waddya know.

workerONE , (edited )

I appreciate the intelligent response but in my opinion this isn’t an evolution of the English language. I think it’s a phrase from Ebonics which is an English dialect.

Gineva Smitherman, Director of the African American Language and Literacy Program at Michigan State University, implies that “be like” is Ebonics in the title of this essay rethinkingschools.org/…/black-english-ebonics-wha…

It seemed strange to me that people are using this phrase so much. Sorry to interrupt the shitposts

Miaou ,

Why would those two things be mutually exclusive? That it comes from Ebonics, and au the same is becoming used in other English dialects? I have an idea of what the answer is but I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt

tjsauce ,

Does it matter? Saying “be like” feels fun, it rolls of the tongue well. If you understand me, communication was successful, end of story.

workerONE ,

Yeah for sure

Tar_alcaran ,

Language evolves, even if we don’t like it.

workerONE ,

Yeah it does but “I be walking” hasn’t been adopted into the English language and I have like 30 shitposters pretending that it has.

puchaczyk ,

For “I be walking” to be adopted, it needs to be used, even if it be incorrect. English language rules be shaped by its usage, not the other way around.

turbulentMagma ,

No worse grammar than confusing ‘be’ and ‘bee’

workerONE ,

No worse grammar? Ok

schnokobaer ,

Bees can do whatever the fuck they want, they are not merely there for our desire to get plants pollinated. They just like to do it.

PatMustard ,

OP is clearly a pirate, leave them be

JoShmoe ,

Whoa this studio has a separate room for the toilet. I don’t think I can afford this.

Blackmist ,

vice.com/…/london-rental-opportunity-shower-insid…

JoShmoe ,

That writer is pretty good. It had me invested.

balderdash9 ,

Just need more roommates :’ )

Venat0r ,

You could fit so many bunk beds in there…

Mr_Fish ,

Just brick them up so you don’t need to pay window tax

surewhynotlem ,

17th century England called and wants their tax system back

Rozz ,

They are trying to take the colonies back by taxes.

JoShmoe ,

burns the stockpile tea

BumbleBeeButt ,

Leave the filthy polluted city. And whatever you do, don’t swim across the river.

shiroininja ,

As someone out in the country, it’s not much better.

5714 ,

Urban people, suburban people and rural people don’t need to hate on each other’s built environment, neighbourhoods and homes. Industrialised societies (that includes all three) produce and emit filth in enormous quantities in and to all places.

KevonLooney ,

No one in a city or suburbs is thinking about rural areas besides, “Oh that looks relaxing.” But people in rural areas talk the most shit like yelling, “Enjoy sniffing each other’s farts!” to a passing jet. Then crying about wanting to leave Toenail, AL.

5714 ,

Global population has only become majority urbanised recently. Many urban people grew up in sub- or exurban areas and thus know how life in suburbia, the village or on a farm was or is.

I agree that there is a disconnection between the urban and the rural and I assume it is spreading fast, because the rural is depopulating and labour is specialising fast. The mode of industrial agriculture is location-dependent, but corn or wheat production uses more and more technology, some steps are commonly outsourced to contractors. I assume that these trends have major implications for the rural population, which often doesn’t supply the near urban population directly anymore.

ArmoredThirteen ,

Not sure if you’ve ever been near a dairy farm before, or like I used to live near a sugar beat factory, plus pesticides, or lung destroying dust season during harvests. Have you seen what agricultural runoff can do to a river?

We’re all dealing with pollution fam it isn’t exclusive to cities. On a broader note urban and rural areas both have various issues so for a lot of people it is just down to which ones you’re willing to put up with. I’ve lived mostly in small farming towns but I’m in a city now and it suits me much better. I’d rather work to improve what I’ve got here than go back.

31337 ,

Wages are usually much lower in rural areas (if there are even jobs available), so this still applies. And, as others have said, there’s plenty of pollution caused by farms and factories in rural areas. I grew up in a rural area, and still remember the seasonal smell of cow manure, and the river that was so polluted you could only eat 1 fish per month from it. I also got a check from a class action lawsuit because a waste disposal facility caught on fire and spewed toxic smoke all over a 50 mile radius. And a local factory got caught just dumping toxic waste in the ground.

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