I live on a traveller site AMA

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Well exactly that really got a spare bit of time and I know with some of the recent ridiculous tv shows I thought I’d see if I could answer a few myths and questions. I will say my partner is a traveller I am not but am married into the community which in itself is rare

Lol, stoppit! 😂🎬

I've always wondered how do you fit everything into a caravan? Do you have storage units aswell? Even kids toys take up loads of space, where do you keep the pram for example?

Ignore the haters OP your thread is very interesting. Why should you account for/ apologise for your life choices? Seems like you have your eyes open and are making things work for you.

They often have sheds and annexes for cooking and storage.

What did your family think the family grew up with?

What is the attitude of the travelling community to the 5 youths who recently died whilst attempting to evade the police and who caused the serious injuries to an innocent family? Or the 2 lads who dragged a policeman to his death?

Are you in a static or touring caravan? And if it’s static, why wouldn’t you just live in a house?

What Eww said might be mildly sarcastic, but it isn’t racist, for Christ’s sake.

What does this have to do with the OP?

What is the difference living in a house to living in a permanent site?

Can you tarmac my drive?

No seriously, if anyone can I’d be really grateful for a quote!

Given she is part of the travelling community and has said ‘ ask me anything’ it seems reasonable to me to ask what their views were about it.

Human feces after a Freshers Fair? - You obviously haven’t had to clean up after travellers broke into our local cricket pitch and stayed for a week.

^ I was also going to ask this question. What is life like for a gay lad or lass in a traveller community?

But what about the traveller folk, standing in the same crowd that you don’t identify because they aren’t dressed in the the stereotypical way you describe. Is that still a “fact” ?

My neighbour is a Traveller who appears to live apart from the father of her children. He comes occasionally to cut the grass etc. They do go travelling in the summer especially. So I suppose she is what you call a ' half traveller' or settled Traveller.

I'm quite interested in the dialect , Shelta , Cant or whatever they call it. Although I've heard it's dying out a bit . Clever how they switch letters around to disguise their meaning. So the Irish word Buachaill (boy) becomes Bloke. Is it true some Travellers are becoming Pentecostalists? I don't know my neighbour well enough to quiz her on this ! She is polite but distant.

It absolutely is racist. And I will call it out every time.

Calling an ethnic minority woman’s culture a subjugated lifestyle, saying you’d be disappointed if your daughter chose it and describing her life as a waste goes well beyond sarcasm. You can criticise individual cultural practices without expressing contempt for an entire ethnic group and the people who belong to it. THIS where it crosses into racism.

Does the animal cruelty upset you and would you say anything to them?

There have been studies undertaken and reports done which highlight the issue of domestic violence towards women in the travelling community.

Why is it that domestic violence is so prevalent?

The OP is a married to a Romany gypsy.
They are two completely different groups of people.

Sorry , crossed lines . You are Romani so the question about Cant is not relevant.

The sites that come near us are similar. A friend of mine works in the local supermarket, and said the primary aged children kept getting sent to shoplift! Why on earth would parents do this?

I don’t know how Irish and Romany travellers differ (I’ve only seen the tv programmes), but why are such young marriages actively encouraged (expected?). Sixteen seems very much the norm, then lots of children soon after.

Why do some travellers leave so much litter around when they leave a non official site eg playing fields? People would be less cross if they just took rubbish with them.