What modern conveniences are the least we need?

[NutmegYankee]

159. Some of us lived in apartments for years before we bought our detached housing.

You can't gaslight me on the experience. I lived it and damn well know first hand how it was. It isn't what you describe by any long shot.

I may not have a large home, but my soon to be paid off mortgage is cheaper than the lowest cost studio apartment in this region. It's my space to enjoy my life as I see fit without some authoritarian nazi fuck making tons of rules on what color I can paint a wall or what sound system I can use. I can arrange my yard to create vast flower gardens, and set up whole section with raised beds to allow significant vegetable growing. Those beds are mine, and I can add new ones or upgrade them as I choose. My yard is completely in my control, and I leave portions of it un-mowed to allow the 'weed' flowers, including the extensive red/white clover to blossom and nourish the bumble bees, which are everywhere. I look out right now and see a New England Cottontail munching away on the tall grass, which thankfully they prefer over my gardens. This is MY place of Zen.

Try to understand that what you like and enjoy are NOT what others like and enjoy. You came off in a very judgemental, dictating manner, and most of the left is anti-authoritarian. You shouldn't be so surprised by the responses.