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In reply to the discussion: White trash. Trailer Trash. People of Wall mart. [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Not much sense, compassion, or even productivity in putting people down because they're poor, or live in trailers, or shop at Wall Mart.
The small town I grew up in, in the last decade, has shut down almost all of it's ma and pa stores, opened new trailer parks, opened two separate dollar stores and a family dollar store. Business has been crumbling for years - and a lot of people who worked for decades to get what they had had to move into to a trailer park, or start shopping at a place where they could buy their food in cans for one dollar each.
I'm not too far from that myself, if not for my family, I might be hard pressed to even manage to rent my own trailer. Shopping at Walmart is about four times cheaper than shopping at the local grocery store - even though it's a 50 mile drive for me, I end up saving money when I go.
We don't all have the luxury of choosing where we live, how we live, or what we can afford.