Could you live in 36 square feet....

Could you live in 36 square feet....​



I skimmed thru the vid
Doesn't look to be cold country (big plus)

She's got a toilet and water

Could be worse

Better than car camping

Could I?
I could
I wouldn't it for long
 

I agree Lee. And there is black mold everywhere, where she said the kids play with their toys. I watched the video again and her one phone is "my iPhone from home" and the other phone is her Mexican phone. Her Mexican husband is in the background. So maybe she doesn't live there all the time. I'd like to think that she goes back to Canada often and takes the kids with her. She should get her teeth fixed while in Mexico as it's dirt cheap there and they do good work I hear. Then she might be able to get a job with childcare benefits.
Water is not drinkable in Mexico.
 
Lara said:
@Aneeda72 ...Social Services Intervention doesn't grab children from their mother's arms and throw the mother in jail.

"Social services helps families with Medicaid, Health Choice for Children, Work First Family Assistance, Work First Employment Services, Emergency Assistance, Child Day Care Subsidies, Electronic Benefit Card (EBT)/Food and Nutrition Services; Low Income Energy Assistance, Child Support Services, and special assistance to elderly"

@Aneeda72 ....I actually didn't suggest "Social Services". I actually said "Child Welfare". Again, Child Welfare doesn't necessarily take children away from mother's nor charge the mother's with a crime.

"Child Welfare typically receives and investigates reports of possible child abuse and neglect; provide services to families that need assistance in the safety and care of their children; arrange for children to live with relatives or with foster families when they are not safe at home".

In this case, the mother is doing the best she knows how with the tools she has so Child Welfare will give her some extra tools to work with and provide services...they aren't going to take her children from her unless the children aren't safe. You can't argue with that, can you?

And, Aneeda, the family is not exactly "living in a motel room on a 2 week vacation" as you suggest.
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It depends greatly on where you live and the age of the children. Since I did Forster care for over 30 years, I am well aware of how the system works in a couple of states. I never said children would be thrown in jail and I even mentioned how families live in tents in my area. I have no ideal what your issues are and why the nature of your reply which I found kind of preachy.

I was not arguing with you about anything, and won’t because you have a set in stone opinion and so do I. I said they are poor and don’t need social services, IMO. Or child welfare services. In fact, neither you nor I know their full story or what they do or do not need. But, where children are concerned, government intervention is not necessarily a good thing.

While they are not on vacation and I never say they were, the concept is the same. Small room, gone during the day, going back for naps and night. While you seemed to think there is something wrong with the way they are living, I do not.

Not everyone wants to hop on the welfare train, not everyone can hop on the welfare train, and, for some people, it can be horrific to do so. I am sure if the woman is smart enough to show the world how she lives, she is smart enough to apply for welfare if needed, and smart enough not to apply for it if she has a valid concern of over zealous government workers.
 

Lara said:
She's clearly afraid of someone breaking in and stealing from her (bought a cheap phone no one "will want to steal") and so I'm thinking the Mexican Drug Cartel. She said she's living in the mountains...that could be anywhere but mountains in Canada and US are basically safe...not in Mexico where at least 400 gangs are fighting for land.

You could be right @hollydolly . I don't know what a Canadian accent sounds like.
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Eh. :giggle:
 
Lee said:
On degrees of being poor, this scrapes the bottom of the barrel. The woman has no upper teeth and the toilet does not even have a seat. When I think about the kids playing in that outdoor area I shudder. What do they play with? Rats for pets?
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I don’t know how it is where you live but I will say it again, it’s not that bad. They had a toilet. Our parents grew up using outhouses, sitting on a wooden board with a hole and grandma had one that we used. People off grid still use outhouses. Plenty of people, around the world, do not have indoor toilets.

No her children don’t play with rats, but rats and mice are EVERYWHERE. Even in very rich areas cats poop in the sand at the playground, kids play in it, mice and rats eat the trash out of the cans and poop everywhere, and filth is everywhere.

Children grow up in all kinds of circumstances and people can not apply their standards on other people, or measure other people by their standards. Well, I guess you can, but in my opinion you should not.
 
You can't decide how a family has to live. The only "IF" in this case is the kids. Are they well fed, well cared for, and healthy? If it is "yes" then it game over. I wasn't about to sit for 7 minutes to view all of the video, but if the mold is present, as Lara saw,, then there is a health issue, which is hard to ignore.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
You can't decide how a family has to live. The only "IF" in this case is the kids. Are they well fed, well cared for, and healthy? If it is "yes" then it game over. I wasn't about to sit for 7 minutes to view all of the video, but if the mold is present, as Lara saw,, then there is a health issue, which is hard to ignore.
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We don’t know if it is mold. If it is mold we don’t know what kind of mold. Pointless to speculate, it could very well be moss, or packed dirt, or any number of things. The children sounded fine and mom demonstrated her awareness of what they were doing when she firmly told the younger child to NOT enter the other apartment.

Lots of houses have mold, and lead paint and asbestos popcorn ceilings and should we remove all the children from all the people in Texas who have to boil their water, don’t have electricity still, and are freezing? Yeah, that’s not going to happen.

The hurricane victims are stuffed into tiny little travel trailers BY THE GOVERNMENT for months and, in some cases, a year or too, yet we find this acceptable. This woman and her kids are fine.
 
The video poses the question: What if it's amazing?

Well, it's not. It looks like a frickin' prison cell. It might be a good solution for homeless people, though. I'd rather live like that than under a highway overpass, but that's a pretty low bar.

As a side note, why is everything amazing to younger generations? They've made the word meaningless.
 
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