Hobo History

Those were the days. Hobos are now referred to as "transients" and "homeless", removing all the luster from the lifestyle.
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It happened at the same time we built suburbia, and everyone had to live in the same nuclear family, in the same style 3 bedroom house.

It stopped being acceptable to have a different lifestyle, because as a culture we became so obsessed with "owning" things, cars, houses. We no longer had jobs but had to have long term "careers"

Even though the nomadic life style has been natural to humans for thousands of years, we grouped homeless people with druggies, alcoholics, criminals, and mentally retarded.

and as with most oppressed minorities - as we marginalized and ostracized them - they became what we expected of them.

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