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A post explaining the reasoning behind a personal preference for living in the suburbs almost made you throw up?

Your close-mindedness of the opinions that others are allowed to have makes me almost want to throw up.

The person you are responding to isn’t displaying a lack of empathy for people that can’t afford to live in the suburbs. They are explaining the very real and understandable reasoning behind a behind their preference.

That’s not selfish and privileged. That’s a preference.

Look, I understand that the fringe groups you might associate yourself with throw around the word “privilege” as an insult at anyone that does something not inline with the group’s thinking, but it’s just not the insult that you think it is outside of those fringe groups.



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