I’m a gypsy girl & here’s 3 things non-travellers do that we find strange – I’d never dream of paying my parents rent

A TRAVELLER girl has revealed what "country people" do that “gypsies and travellers find strange.” 

Charlotte Ann, 29, claimed that she'd never dream of paying her parents rents, and still has to ask her parents' permission if she wants to do something.

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In a clip posted to TikTok (@charlotteann00), she begins by noting: “Disclaimer, these are just things that I’ve seen in the culture. 

“I'm not saying everyone does this, we’re not playing the stereotype game.

“These are the things that I’ve seen that are so different from our culture, just like you see things in my culture that you think are really different and shocking.”

First up, she explains the differences when it comes to living with parents.

"You have to pay for shopping when you're home with your mummy and daddy, and you have to pay them rent to live in the house," Charlotte says.

"I would never - I don't understand. Why are you paying your mummy and daddy rent?

"They're going to live in that house regardless - that's their house, so
why are you paying them rent?

"No, I'm sorry, but that is one that I find so strange."

She continues: "You're paying your mummy and daddy rent?
Just go get your own place, then.

“If my mummy told me that I had to pay for rent if we lived in a house or anything, I’d say, ‘well I’ll go and get my own house then.’ 

“This is hypothetically speaking, if I wasn’t a traveller.”

Next up, she says she finds it strange that non-traveller girls can just "go off and do that they want."

"The girls - I’m saying girls, because obviously in our culture the boys can do what they like - but the girls in your culture, can just go off and do what they want, when they want," she explains.

“Whereas for us, we have to ask. If we want to go somewhere and do something, we’d have to ask our mummy and daddies. 

“We can’t just get up and go, and do what we want when we want. 

“And then they’ll answer their mummy back and be like, ‘you can’t stop me, I’m my own boss. I’ll do what I like.’ 

“And then the mummies are like, ‘Ok, well she is 16, so I am just going to have to let her.’

“I’m nearly 30, I have fossil eyes, and I have silver shine on the edges of my hair and if I talked to my mummy saying, 'I’ll do whatever I want, there’s nothing you can do about it,' she'd put my head spinning like WWE style!

Charlotte continues: “...That’s another difference in the culture. 

“I think in our culture, your parents have a lot more authority over you. And it’s not a controlling thing, it’s not like authority, we’re controlling you - it’s not like that. 

“I just think, and this is just what I think, don’t come for me in the comments, I just think we’re more family orientated usually - and it’s just a different kind of bond. 

“What our mummy and daddy say, usually just tends to go and we just go with that. 

“I think we have a lot more reverence for our parents and our culture.

“I don’t want to say respect, because respect is a harsh strong word but I just think we have more reverence for them.

“And that’s not all travellers and gypsies, like I said I can only talk for myself.”

The post has since gone viral, racking up over 100k views and several comments from social media users.

"I’m not a traveller or gypsy, but I find the board thing so weird that some parents make their kids pay for their bedroom? Like, don’t have kids," wrote one.

A second penned: "I think that from my experience, I think that once your working an earning a living it's out of respect to pay rent."

A third commented: "My mum made me pay 'rent' as a principle - gave every penny back to me when I was a first time buyer. Can’t thank her enough for it."

Meanwhile, a fourth added: "I have to pay my mum rent to help her. She’s a single mum running a house on one wage, couldn’t imagine not helping her."