I’m a gypsy girl & couldn’t go back to living on the road – I hated peeing in sheds & councils always moved us on
A TRAVELLER has confessed the reasons why she would never go back on the road.
The mum says she there’s a lack of privacy as a traveller that you have when you are in a house or flat.
Suzy confirmed in a TikTok video online: “I’m happier being settled.”
She said: “So right now I’d say I’m happy and not travelling.”
She explained as a child the idea of constantly moving around was exciting.
She said: “Obviously when we travelled, we was a lot younger and it was exciting, cause even if we got shifted somewhere the council people come out, so you can’t stop it.”
Suzy added: “It was all an excitement for us growing up because we didn’t really understand the reasoning behind why we had to move. It’s just like so common for us.”
She concluded at lot kids like being outside.
She said: “We was excited. But when you’re a kid, things don’t really bother you that much. You just wanna be outdoors anyway.”
“But now I’m happy being settled. I can never picture myself going back into a trailer and moving about.”
Suzy explained living on the road doesn’t always account for natural human necessities like using the toilet freely.
She said: “Maybe on a site again, I don’t know. But no, I couldn’t be on side of the road again. Before I come here, I was on a site in Wales, and in the winter time, all the pipes froze up and shed was outside to go to the toilet.”
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“And I was having my daughter and I was big and round and clumsy. I was forever in and out of the shed, even when it was snowing and it was just horrible.”
“I feel like when you’re in a house or a flat, whatever, you get a lot more privacy. Or is like if you go out to the shed on a site, everyone knows you’re taking a p*ss. So I do like the sort of privacy side of things.”
Suzy added that in the winter it’s better to be in a warm home.
“Not just that, I’m not gonna lie. I like central heating. I wouldn’t mind travelling in the summer but maybe they sound like campsites and things. Not on the sides of roads I couldn’t do that again.”
Suzy reflected on some happy times she did have in her childhood.
“We stayed in some really nice places when we was younger, from what I can remember anyway. “
“It was always like open fields and if we were on the side of the road, that always be somewhere there for us to like, go and play and stuff.”
But there was always the risk of being thrown out.
She said: “Every night again, we might have like p*ssed off a farmer or something, cause we go and play in the fields and whatever, but we didn’t mean no harm by it.”
“But for now I would definitely say that I am more happy just being settled. Cause I am quite a quiet person anyway, so I really enjoy my own company. Sounds really sad, but I like to not be bothered.”