Social Question #11: Punk Houses

[3LittlePiggies]

I imagine no one will be able to offer anything here given you're all actuaries, but does anyone in this forum have any direct/indirect experience with "Punk Houses" ?

Lately, I've been hanging around a couple of them and find it both disgusting and intriguing at the same time. Very, very different from our boring actuarial lives but please share if you have personal experience with them.

Also, there was a user here who said her brother may have been in one. Uma Karuna I think? What has his life been like?

[DudeMan]

One of my good friends works in a punk house. ABout 3 weeks ago, one of the kids accused him and a few other of abuse. They had to go to court and everything.....everyone aquitted. After the hearing, the kid admitted to them that he lied about it.

Overall, it's a cush job, but periodically a kid will totally flip out and he has to restrain him for a few hours.

[Loner]

WTH is a Punk house?

[Mystical Bunny of Destiny]

exactly what it sounds like

[cubedbee]

There's a good (poorly acted, because they're not actors, they're real punks) movie called Suburbia (not SubUrbia) from the 80s about one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086589/

[QMO]

Originally Posted by Mystical Bunny of Destiny

exactly what it sounds like

Yeah, it's a house that smolders, never quite bursting into flame, that you can use to light other things on fire.

[Abused Student]

Originally Posted by QMO

Yeah, it's a house that smolders, never quite bursting into flame, that you can use to light other things on fire.

Really? I thought it was a house with purple hair. Shows what I know.

[glassjaws]

HAHAHA the wikipedia for punk house has "Also See" items of homelessness, transience and squatting.

Originally Posted by cubedbee

There's a good (poorly acted, because they're not actors, they're real punks) movie called Suburbia (not SubUrbia) from the 80s about one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086589/

Holy crap, I LOVED that movie when I was 15 years old.

Two trivia bits -

Penelope Spheeris went on to direct Wayne's World.
Flea was in this movie, before he was a rock star.

Originally Posted by 3LittlePiggies

Also, there was a user here who said her brother may have been in one. Uma Karuna I think? What has his life been like?

My brother doesn't really live in a "punk house", as in he and his roomates aren't technically squatters. One couple owns the house - actually pays a mortgage - and my brother and another roommate pay them rent which they put towards the mortgage.

However, for all intents and purposes, it's kind of the same thing...lots of musicians and artists and bohemian strippers and whatnot crashing on the floor when they need a place to stay or partied too much to get home, etc.

WAY filthy. No one much cares about hygene it seems.

Now I have to admit to living a similar lifestyle (except I paid rent and cleaned the bathroom regularly) when I was much younger. But still had a lot of milk-crate furniture and unfamiliar kids with mohawks sleeping on the couch. Met a lot of interesting people. Some of them grew up. Some of them crashed and burned.

However, unlike my brother, I'm happy to live a full-time employed, mortgage-paying, retirement saving, health-insured, well-fed existance, even if that means I "sold out."