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 I LIVED WITHOUT CONVENIENCES AND IT SUCKED MASSIVE DICK
THEN I LIVED WITH ONLY A LITTLE BIT OF CONVENIENCE AND IT WAS BASICALLY AS GOOD AS ALL MODERN AMENITIES

HAVING SOLID WALLS AND ROOF AROUND YOU IS WORTH A HUNDRED THOUSAND ELECTRICITIES
BEING ABLE TO BOIL A GIANT STOCK POT OF WATER AND HAVE A TOWEL BATH IS 98% OF WHAT A HOT SHOWER PROVIDES

THE ACTUAL BIG DEAL BREAKERS ARE
1 INSECURE LOCATION 
HAVING TO BE PARANOID ABOUT COPS AND NIGGERS, PLANNING OUT ESCAPES LIES AND FIGHTS
2 LONELINESS

DEALING WITH THESE TWO IS WORTH LOSING NINETY PERCENT OF MODERN COMFORTS, AND I KNOW EVERYONE YONE IS GETTING DOGGED DOWN BY THESE TWO FACTORS INCREASINGLY
MY BRIEF PONTIAC STINT JUST EXACERBATED THE PROBLEM FOR ME 
 You lived in a Pontiac?