Friday, May 5, 2017

The Middle Class Was Already Collapsing When Staycation Tried to Become a Word

The staycation tried to become a word when people didn't have enough money to go anywhere cool so they put money into their homes instead in a phenomenon which was once called 'house proud' and regarded with some measure of contempt.  As the staycation evolved, people stopped thinking about the cool vacations much at all and instead put everything into the houses.

Houses in America have become holy shrines and this isn't going to segue into blasting religion since there isn't any religion in enshrining a house; it's still just a house.


We can see with the hipster home flippers in California that people will spend half a million casually on houses which really aren't that large but they have various cosmetic attractions such as an extra-large fridge or a super-deluxe kitchen range.  Sometimes you get an island in your modern kitchen where kibble will accumulate for no apparent reason.

On the other hand, there's some cat on YouTube who built a log cabin and it's not much for cosmetics but he holed up at thirty below and did just fine.  Let's try that in that hipster-flipped new house, huh.  One good windstorm and that cosmetic piece of crap will be spraying broken glass from here to L.A.





Mystery Lady, I imagine you'll like the man who did this and the cabin is so nice.  Maybe he's a daft old sod but maybe he's cooler than those hipsters will ever be.

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