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[SolVanderlyn]

Obviously, all of them apply. But for me, the biggest ones are easy access to music and a treadmill.

I HATE running outside. I could get used to it, but I really don't want to. I love my daily ritual of listening to music on the treadmill - it's meditative, it helps keep me together. I've become reliant on that structure and those endorphins. It keeps me relatively in shape. Without it, or with it suddenly shaken up, I think I'd have a minor breakdown.

Music is life. It's on nearly 24/7. Ok, not that often - not at work or out in the world. But at home? As long as I'm not watching TV or playing a game, it's music, music all the time. To suddenly have that access gone would shake things up really badly.

Hoping this thread can inject a little appreciation for the good things in people's lives.

The Internet

Besides this, this is obviously the biggest one for a lot of people, lol

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The Internet

 

[SpaceCadetKeon]

My phone.

 

[snacknuts]

Clean running water. Have you ever had your water shut off for several hours while the water company fixes something? Shit sucks.

 

[Jobbs]

My ivory backrubs

 

[pa22word]

Gps


Without the internet i' d still have books to read and games to play and such. No GPS and I'd be pulled over on the side of the road looking at maps so much;-;

 

[Pagusas]

Clean running water. Have you ever had your water shut off for several hours while the water company fixes something? Shit sucks.

Thats not a convenience, thats essential.


Air Conditioning is mine. Can live without it, but I love knowing my house will allways be 70 degrees.

 

[Machina]

The Internet

One and done. I would legit wanna die

 

[J-Roderton]

Sunglasses and air conditioning. I hate the sun.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Running water. Guaranteed electricity. The basic safety here. The knowledge that even if I lose everything I have, there is a safety net so I don't starve to death.

 

[old]

Air conditioning
Indoor plumbing
Running water
Electricity

Internet might also be on there. There's some books I could read to get through a month or two without internet. But after a few months I crack.

 

[casablanca]

WC.

 

[heathen]

Water pressure

 

[Mobius 1]

Having grown in a developing country, I often worry about this.

- Reliable, cheap and widely available electricity, water and sanitation
- Public safety
- Decent to great roads and highway systems
- Regulations that protect you as a citizen
- Consumer rights
- Cheap personal transportation
- Consumer goods availability, at relative low cost
- Ease of travel
- Adfordable financial services like banking and insurance

I could go on, but I'm on my phone. Some of these are relative, but you get the picture.

 

[Breads]

Air conditioner.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Clean drinking water where ever I am, for almost "nothing" at home / work etc or for very small price in the bottle from the supermarket.

 

[Llyranor]

Toilet paper

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Air conditioning. Even in my birth country you can't really afford to keep the ac on all of the time, it's a "turn on when you're going to sleep" type of deal
Roads in decent shape plus major big highways everywhere like in the US
Catalog/access to online streaming services (in this case different Netflix, no amazon prime, no hulu, no HBO now)
Decently fast internet
And one I'd likely have to get used to whenever I move away from Texas will be all of the above plus the wide open roads and space in Texas when you're not in major cities. I like the space.

 

[Shadybiz]

Agreed that clean drinking water is more of an "essential" than a convenience."

That said, mine would be air conditioning. Not 100% necessary where I live, but man, I would hate to lose it.

 

[erlim]

Toilet paper

This. Very surprised when I visited China and there was none in their squat toilet stalls.

 

[Pagusas]

This. Very surprised when I visited China and there was none in their squat toilet stalls.

how... what do they do then?

 

[CHC]

I don't think some people in this thread understand what non-first-world countries are like....?

It's not like tents in the woods.... in all but the most extreme places you're still going to have water, electricity, and probably some internet.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Public health-care, free higher education, public transportation that doesn't suck

 

[DavidDesu]

Phone, or that "computer in your pocket" notion. Rely on things like Google maps heavily, checking bus and train times, find out out random information when I need it (wheres the nearest cash machine etc).

And yeah just keeping me feeling connected to the world through Twitter, NeoGaf, checking the news and so on. Although I think this can be a curse as much as anything and we all need more alone time in our own heads.

After that it's probably the microwave.

 

[taybul]

Water pressure

This. Never thought I'd miss a nice strong shower so much until I experienced what was essentially a trickle shower in a foreign country.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Clean water. Reliable electricity. Climate controlled homes/rooms.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Air conditioning

 

[PeskyToaster]

We had a rough storm and lost power last week. Terrible.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Electricity - Had a 4 hour black out last winter. Cold, dark, couldn't cook etc. Most of all bored shitless.

Water
Toilet roll
Toothpaste
Matress and Pillows
MUsic player

 

[Alienfan]

Safety. Also regulations. The worst thing I have to worry about when going out for dinner is "will the food taste good" not health and safety. Or getting run over by dangerous traffic

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

All of it!

 

[LosDaddie]

Air Conditioning (I even remember a thread where someone was trying to make people feel bad for having it &#128514
Daily hot showers

 

[Transistor]

Air conditioning. I don't understand how people survived in Houston before it existed

 

[Budi]

The Internet

Yup, I always feel incredibly isolated and bored and anxious when at home without internet connection. Luckily this hasn't happened often. Though I guess even worse would be without my PC. Using internet on the phone isn't enough for me and even without internet connection PC offers me plenty to do. I could easily live without a mobile phone.

Edit: Ofcourse water and electricity would be awful to lose. But as another poster said, clean water is pretty much essential. Unfortunately everyone don't have proper access to it. And for electricity it's essential in winter here too. Electric companies aren't even allowed to shut down your electricity from october to april even if you haven't paid the bills if the electricity is used for the heating of a residence. Unless the bills are 4 months late already.

 

[dab0ne]

Clean running water. Have you ever had your water shut off for several hours while the water company fixes something? Shit sucks.

This easily

 

[Rekwest]

My gun,

 

[theepicoftyler]

Power.

We used to lose power for 2-3 days, sometimes up to a week, when huge storms would roll through. My parents lived in a small village in rural Illinois and they were very low priority to get power back online after those events.

I used to ride my bike to the nearest town to use a restroom and take a fake shower. I'd also stop by the Walmart in that town and sneak charge any of my portable electronics on the power strips behind the TVs.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Clean water, toilets, abundant food

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Air conditioner

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Too many to list..

 

[Mahonay]

Power

 

[bigkrev]

Im so terrible at directions, I have no idea how I could drive longer than 10 minutes from the house without a GPS

 

[AmyS]

The internet. The suburbs.

 

[Kurdel]

Music is life. It's on nearly 24/7. Ok, not that often - not at work or out in the world. But at home? As long as I'm not watching TV or playing a game, it's music, music all the time. To suddenly have that access gone would shake things up really badly.

Developing countries also have this Music you speak of, it is quite popular across the globe. from what I gather.

 

[Violence Jack]

Air purifiers. Without them, my allergies are a nightmare

and I'd likely die without A/C

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Toilet paper
Medicine

 

[ThatStupidLion]

porn

 

[LogicAirForce]

Clean running water. Have you ever had your water shut off for several hours while the water company fixes something? Shit sucks.

I've had it shut off for several days as a kid, parents couldn't pay the bill. Having to dump tubs of water into the back of the toilet when you needed to flush it definitely sucked.

I can't stand hot weather so I would say air conditioning for me.

 

[Pagusas]

Im so terrible at directions, I have no idea how I could drive longer than 10 minutes from the house without a GPS

I'm glad I grew up before mass consumer gps, I've seen how the current generation couldn't find a Starbucks across the street without it. Map reading should be a requirement in grade school.

 

[Stormthehouse]

electricity and decent public transport.

I lived without good public transport most of my life and that basically meant I was screwed out of getting any kind of job even half worth having.

I lived without electricity for a few days and I was ready to have a headbutt competition against a brick wall.

Other than that I would be incredibly bored but i'd survive, i'd miss be able to talk to my friends though without internet.