So if you read the blog you will already know that we live in a camper now. A 30ft pull behind camper. After my husband lost his job in St. Louis he got another one.... in Memphis Tennessee. I find it so funny that when we told people that we were moving here they would say, "oh it's so pretty there" "oh you have the blues, Graceland, so much history" yes, yes those things are true... but let me just give you a picture of how it is to live here.
It is basically a trash dump, that crushes all your happiness.
I don't know maybe that isn't fair. But really, there is a lot of trash EVERYWHERE, especially in the neighborhoods near Graceland. So many buildings run down and boarded up. Grass is unkept. It just over all looks awful! You would think with a spot where they get a lot of tourist they would keep it looking nice. I don't think I've seen so much trash in my life around a city. And it wasn't even just the trash, it was all the overgrown grass and weeds on the city streets. There was one street that had so much overgrown weeds and grass you couldn't see the sidewalk. Just overall looks terrible, very unattractive. we have yet to see Graceland, but it's so expensive for just the 5 of us, and 2 of us are 5 and under! My husband looked it up, it was gonna be around $500 for us. I don't think it's worth that! geez, it's just a museum basically.
I miss St. Louis. I miss our house. I miss all the free things to do, all the amazing places to eat! I miss forest park! I miss the homeschooling co-op's! You know how they say hindsight is 20/20... I feel like this is one of those things.
When Matthew was offered the job it sound great. But once we got down here, and he's been working it doesn't seem so great. I think right now the only benefit is the pay increase. Because we still have no house. Still in this camper. Now don't get me wrong, living in a camper is cheaper than a hotel by thousands of dollars and camping is fun and sounds to great... if you found a campground that was nice. We have been here little over a month and we have already having trouble with people. Because our camper isn't new and fancy we have people complaining and we have people complaining about us being her on a month to month basis... which why that seems to be a problem for you is beyond me. Then on 2 occasions we had people being rude about the kids swimming in the pool! What is the problem with people, like where do you live that you need to be so rude? Then we had them tell us that people took pictures of our camper and posted on a review and that we need to pick up everything outside, we had 2 camping chairs, pool toys, cooler, table, grill, 2 kids bikes and that's it. They said it's a campground, not a trailer park... could you explain how those things make it trailer park? But yet here I am looking around seeing everyone else with camping chairs, coolers, dog kennels, bikes, trailers, buckets, trash cans, grills, welcome signs and much more! We have come to realize if you don't have a fancy rv or camper and no kids this is the place for you. Needless to say we are looking some place else to stay.
Sorry this is so long, but I just need to get that off my chest. Thanks for listening!
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