Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "California Authorities Destroy Boats And Clear Floating Community" video.

I LIVED ONA BOAT IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE for 3 years, no one questioned me, no one crushed my boat, no one checked it was sea worthy, there was a great community of people living on the boats there.
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@tims6540 - I live in Bulgaria now. The poorest country in the EU. We don't have homeless people, not really. 2 in my city. Maybe 1500 in the whole country. If Bulgaria can do it, why cant the USA.?? OH, profits. Right.
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@keithdunderdale8027 - 3 of the happiest years of my life. sadly I ran out of money and head to go back to the UK and do "work" - UGH...
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@mugumyapaultheafricannomad9488 - I also find the western version of "wealth = happiness" to be incredibly flawed / western biased. I have travelled a lot in West Africa and I have honestly never met happier people. I have travelled a lot in Europe and the people here in Bulgaria are the happiest. The most unhappy are in the UK my home country. This idea that more money = happiness is a very western / American view. What I really think they mean is, IN America and the UK and similar countries you are EXCLUDED from society unless you have quite a lot of money, so to be happy there you need money. In Africa and Bulgaria, you are not excluded from society even if you have nothing. The shop will sell you 1 razor blade or 1 tide washing pod to wash your clothes and the world will still talk to you. If you are poor in the USA / UK you are ignored, almost hated by society.
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@mugumyapaultheafricannomad9488 - WOW - what an AMAZING trip you are doing. In 2005 I drove from my home country the UK through Europe to Spain and then across to Cuita, then Morroco and down the west coast through Western Sahara, Mauritania, a bit of Algeria, Senegal, The Gambia and a bit of Guinea - Bissau but that was only by going too far on a road at night, we got turned back by the military police. Ive travelled in 53 countries, hopefully, soon I will be able to travel more in Eastern Europe as I want to talk to more people about their experiences of the communist times here. To what you were saying, people in the west look at the average earnings here IN Bulgaria - $600 a month and assume everyone is unbelievably miserable and deprived. But 85% of people hare own their own home with no mortgage, most families only one person works, the hospitals are all brand new, the roads like glass, and my rent on a beach front apartment is $150 a month... Sure the cars tend to be 15 or 20 years old, but apart from that most people live a life that average Americans can only dream of... You cant compare countries on the $$$$ earned per month - its meaningless.
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OH MY GOD what a disgusting country you people live in...
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@oldgysgt - MY boat had just been fully restored, it was immaculate. Others were floating trash heaps. They were all treated the same.
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@dr.OgataSerizawa LOOG LUCK to you my friend.
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