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Jacked up prices, don't want to support the government moneymaking scam called college, and someone has to experience life in order to be a true hippie.
Jacked up prices, don't want to support the government moneymaking scam called college, and someone has to experience life in order to be a true hippie.
One has to have been born in the late 40s to early 50s and come of age in the 60s and 70s to be a true hippie. All the rest are merely latter-day poseurs and wannabes.
Now if Gingersnap is your real name your parent's may have been actual hippies.
Last edited by Curmudgeon; 09-02-2013 at 11:28 AM..
I have many older friends which is why I may see through the wannabes.
I have you beaten. I'm married to an older (65) friend - an original 60s, bra-burning feminist turned hippie midwife who delivered hundreds of babies in at-home births. And I'm a 60s combat veteran and former state narcotics agent. Twenty-two years of friendship and 17 years of marriage later we're still trying to figure this one out.
Jacked up prices, don't want to support the government moneymaking scam called college, and someone has to experience life in order to be a true hippie.
This may be true of some colleges - but not all are government-affiliated or in it for the money.
Check out Yellow Springs, Ohio, and/or Berea, Kentucky.
(got my '60s cred, too...even have some slightly dusty love beads hanging around my closet still, not to mention bell-bottoms...).
Hippies? I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and knew my fair share of hippies. I guess I might've even been one at one time. In any event, what we all found out that Being a hippie was all good fun, but unless you had a trust fund, you eventually ran out of money.
As for where to be a hippie today? Perhaps some of the small towns in northern California, some of the small towns in Colorado, some of the small towns in Arizona or New Mexico. The rest of the country, forget about it.
How does one go about moving/living in a small town, I really want to live in a Smaller town, and I'm ready for that lifestyle, I just don't know how to get there and make money.
How does one go about moving/living in a small town, I really want to live in a Smaller town, and I'm ready for that lifestyle, I just don't know how to get there and make money.
Starting a business or Buying an existing business would probably be your best route. SBA loans and rural development grants might be something to look into. There are usually no ready-made jobs in small towns unless there is a factory, mill, slaughterhouse, tourist attraction or freeway nearby. Which all ruin the small-town essence, in my opinion. In my tiny town (Mapleton, Oregon) there is a bar/restaurant for sale, also a gas station. There are no jobs, the mills closed long ago. People commute, own small businesses, participate in the barter & gray market economy, and are generally on the lower side of middle class, or downright poor. If i was going to start a new business in Mapleton, a laundramat would be a winner.
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