Thread 212150336

>ywn be a young american from a flyover state/small town setting out to one of the big cities to find your footing and make something of yourself, with nothing but the clothes on your person and 50 bucks
FUCK

>>212150336 (OP)
Mostly because $50 doesnt get you anything anymore

>>212150385
It didn't get you that far back in the 60s/70s either, hitchhiking is peak americana KINO

>>212150336 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY

>>212150336 (OP)
That's a good way to wind up homeless and raped.

>>212150430
Was thinking more of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YP3pIPp8P8
>>212150451
I guess boomers didn't have to worry too much about that.

>>212150336 (OP)
If you don't have a car, you're not sleeping with a roof over your head. Then, you will be offered shady drugs on a particularly bad day on the streets and get hooked. A few years later you die of an overdose.

>>212150563
Living actually meant something back then, kids are too coddled these days!

>>212150336 (OP)
Scene 2: you get shot
Fin.

>>212150336 (OP)
The old timey immigrants are the ones that really blow my mind. Imagine going to a new country with nothing but a little bit of money in your pockets and however much clothes you can carry; no reservations, no Uber, no guarantee of a job or even a roof of your head, often not even able to speak English! And then striking out farther, going west, getting your plot of land and building your shack and digging your well, planting your crops and hoping to God for a good harvest and that the Indians don't come raiding. Now if you told people you were going on a trip and didn't have a hotel reservation they'd think you were crazy. Giants walked the Earth in those days.

>>212150336 (OP)
Why do so many people romanticise lives of poverty and material insecurity? It's horrible being poor. I daydream of being wealthy and eating fancy food every day in my penthouse suite.

>>212150336 (OP)
yeah you would get raped by the 2500 rent on fentanyl bulevard and would be praying to go back home

>>212150620
they unironically had people organising that shit for them back home
in 1930s my great grandpa who was a miner was literally harassed to go to work in virginia, the recruiters had printed out photos of the houses they would be staying in with them

>>212150623
>ywn be a young brit from a post industrial town setting out to one of the big cities to find your footing and make something of yourself, with nothing but the clothes on your person and 50 bucks and then realise you can't afford a single week's rent and can't get a job because you have no fixed address so you either go back home or be a homeless beggar

>>212150701
I can believe that for industrial jobs in the later stages of immigration but the vast majority of pioneers didn't have shit promised to them, there were no "company towns" on the frontier of Iowa

>>212150623
You wouldn't get it. Little things mattering, the promise of making it big but realizing it's the journey that matters not the destination, lived experience that trumps tomes of passed down wisdom... boomers had the right idea, this modern world has though robbed us of it.

>>212150620
>Giants walked the Earth in those days.
Very true.

>>212150336 (OP)
You can do it, son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

Tbqh i just want to go back tribal age and do nothing but survive in forest mainlt hunting and fishing among small size farming for own needs.

Should propably vanish in siberia