Posted on 06/01/2005 10:10:21 AM PDT by ken21
"The women are like the rulers," Kelsey said on a drive with her father during a weekend soccer tournament in Columbus, Ga. "They have the big cars. The dads have the little cars and just go to work." She said her mother thought that her father was too relaxed on the road.
Mr. Link said, "Kathy becomes impatient with me when I'm going 70 in a 65 zone."
"No, Daddy," Kelsey said. "It's when you're going 60."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Life is America is good. We can create our own happiness and future and live anywhere we want.
" Brookings Institution analysis of census data last year reported that the percentage of people living in affluent or poor suburbs in 50 metropolitan areas increased from 1980 to 2000, and the percentage living in middle-income areas declined."
I was just saying this last week re: San Diego. They're going to have a real-estate rich upper class and the dirt poor. Everyone else in the "middle" will be renting if they're not forced to leave the state to buy their first home.
I'm so glad I left that life.
Ain't that the truth. It wasn't too long ago that I would venture off on my bike miles from home (so it seemed-- probably two), and all I needed to do was call my mom from a pay phone and ask her when she needed me back. And I would also ride my bike to baseball practice a mile or so away.
Now, I'm 34 and won't let my daughter out front without me or my wife being out there. Glad we have a back yard.
Wives rule?
In houses fortunate to have them, cats rule.
Me: 4 + 7 = 11
Him: 5 + 1 = 6
Therefore, I am in charge at this time. I keep having to remind him that 6 is a little too old to still be throwing temper tantrums, though.
Fast food and there is no bedtime anymore. I see the little ones on my street running around after dark. One mom tells me "I can't ever get my daughter up for school". I suggested an actual BEDTIME and this was a new idea for her.
Ahh, Rochester's yuppie population. I grew up in one of the villages a couple of towns away from there. Mostly they are just snobby Democrat elitists.
That's happening in every major metropolitan area in the US.
With "starter home" prices around $300K or more, where will our children be able to afford to live? Detroit? Flint? That's about it - unless you can survive somewhere where there are no jobs. For cryin' out loud, the article talks about homes in South Carolina going for over $500K. South Carolina!
I have to say, even when the NYT has a decent article about a legit issue in a lot of peoples' lives, it still comes across as incredibly snotty. If I were unemployed and homeless and read this, I'd be annoyed at the whiney yuppie scum featured herein.
Or, even worse, if your were making $50K a year in San Francisco and were still essentially homeless (can't afford to rent or buy). Read an article about that a while back. At least the homeless guy can sit around all day and drink Mad Dog.
I'm annoyed because my kids don't play soccer. How will they survive?
Happy wife. Happy life. Good advice from a Redneck in Greece.
I read one about a gut in that situation who just rode the rails (BART) at night and showered at the Y. Rootless people should migrate south. I have so many loser relatives in the NYC area who whine about the cost of everything. MOVE already.
I always wonder how people can survive in NYC on anything much less than a lawyer's salary. Manhattan has become a playground for the super-rich. Even law firm partners and mid-level I-Bankers aren't much more than middle-class.
I am the absolute ruler in my house ... my wife said I could be
If things were so great, why did she leave? On the one hand I want to say that their desire to have a $400,000 house outwighed her desire to live a nice wholesome live with her family. However, I am escaping Rochester NY myself. The economy is worthless, politics here are terrible, overregulation, high taxes... But aside from that, it is still a nice place to raise a family. I would never want to live in one of the "communities" that are described in this article, the ones that are choking their way across suburban America more and more every year. Yuck, no thanks.
Yes, very true. In addition, such wives are usually dissatisfied to some degree with their less-manly husbands. After taking over the leadership role in the family, they wonder why their husbands don't behave more like leaders.
And he's porking her 'cuz you're not at home to do that either 'cuz you're working to pay for the maid because your wife is too tired from tennis 'lessons' to vacuum...
"Service partners" have it bad. No job security, probably have kids, looking to buy, money -- but not MONEY. It's either live in a $1.2m hovel or commute from a shoddily constructed, over-priced suburban "house."
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