/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6280917
Interesting anon, for me I also grew up quite poor but had parents (or parent since my dad loved spending money) who did their best to sacrifice their own enjoyment for ours. So I had everything more or less, and so did my two brothers. We had all the consoles and were always up to date (although we didn't care for Sony surprisingly, so no PS2/PS3 until we were teens). So I always had something to distract me. Still, at least my parents didn't force me to give away my vidya for more vidya, she would just buy us whatever was new for birthdays and christmas.

I'm from London so I pretty much see a city that has around 5 different architecture styles clashing into one another constantly, along with tons of graffiti and rubbish everywhere, it's honestly such an ugly place and the weather never changes so it's always grey. I also live in an apartment block that was for 2 people but had 5 people living in it so I was always cramped. Whenever I would watch movies or tv shows set in suburban America, it was such an eyeopener. It was the EXACT kind of place I wish I lived in. It was sunny, spacious, seemed like there was tons to explore and places to go, everyone sort of knew each other or at least were on good terms, kids played outside for ages, you could hang out with your friends at your place or vise versa. I'm sure it's a "grass is greener" kinda deal but I imagine if you took my family and placed them there instead I probably would've had a completely better life.

I don't know, I guess I just never had any kind of experience due to my overprotective parents. So whenever I'd escape to movies and TV I'd always see kids having adventures in these houses and neighborhoods, hell even when I'd use the internet and browse 4chan when I was a teenager the greentext stories would always be from Americans talking about their middle class lifestyle, playing vidya, hanging out with friends, sleepovers, hanging out in the woods and shit. Just seemed so much better.