I'm sure glad I scrolled down before I Googled for those!
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 ...
"Service partner" always makes me think of some second-rate whore. Which is an appropriate image, I guess.
Which is why programs like "Desparate Housewives" is trouble for this families. The wives think it is a documentary.
I never WILL understand the self-imposed insanity of some people!
They spend all their time hauling kids back and forth from one social/school/sport function to another, then wonder why they're too wiped out for any time of their own.
I'm sure glad I scrolled down before I Googled for those!
"For cryin' out loud, the article talks about homes in South Carolina going for over $500K. South Carolina!"
Charlotte may well be on the border of South Carolina, but it's still in North Carolina, or at least it was last time I was there.
I asked my daughter about that once and she mentioned that she was one of the few kids she knew who had dinner with her parents every night. And it's not like she has no outside activities. She takes music lessons, horseback riding lessons, is active in a church youth group.
You can still buy a house for $10,000 in Detroit or Flint.....
Kids aren't allowed to just "play" anymore. All their time is scheduled. I never had any desire to haul my kids around 24/7. Guess I'm just too lazy!
In the last 10 years, five subdivisions sprouted up within 2 miles from my dad's house. A new gated community went up 1/2 mile away. $500K+ There's a $600-1mill sub 1.5 miles away, and a 300K-500K sub now up across the street, and another just down the road. This is just down the road from his place. It used to be all woods. I wish it still was.
If I pay $500K, it's going to be a 20 acre ranch where I can hunt, and also have none of that homeowner association stuff.
Yeah, I want the same thing. Ever notice how those $300k + homes look... cheap and cheesy? Ugh! Exactly... for $300k + I could buy a nice spread in the middle of nowhere.
I'll know I've "made it" in life when I can have outdoor rock concerts in my back yard or shoot high-powered assault rifles off of the roof of my house bare-ass naked at 3am. Now there's a vision for you all! My heavily tattooed naked self on the rooftops, weilding an AK!
hahahahah... At this rate I'm never going to get married... if it wasn't for the fact that my girlfriend is a musician and a libertarian, I'd still be single!!!
"Now there's a vision for you all!"
My wife thought it bad enough when I took a whiz off the back deck in broad daylight after we bought our house!
right.
they're popping up around the major cities across the u.s.
Five years ago I paid $38K for forty acres with 1000 feet of river frontage (Nice trout stream); deer, bear, moose, beaver, 25 acres of woods, Maple, oak, poplar and white pine, a few apple trees, the rest meadow with a spring and a grove of poplars in the middle, plenty of room for a nice vegetable garden and enough maples for sugaring in the spring. It's four miles down a dirt road from the village (Population 568 with a diner, general store, bank and gas station) and about 20 miles from the nearest Walmart. North property line is my neighbor the dairy farmer's South forty pasture, the neighbor on the South is surrounded by woods and grows blueberries.
The wife wants horses so we'll be building a nice big barn with a small living quarters in the loft. Estimates run about $50K, more, or less, depending.
I believe that's less than what my family paid 20 years ago for their cottage up north on a trout stream - and that was 5 acres(4 1/2 thick woods) - and no moose(although deer, bear, elk, beaver, turkeys etc).
That was one bigtime bargain, or out in the middle of nowhere and not yet discovered by snowbirds and retirees like much of North Michigan has been.
Prices in that area are now running $4000 an acre. When we bought, a realtor told us that we'd be crazy to pay even $1000. However, you can still buy a nice house on five acres for well under $100K in that township. Its in Northern Vermont so not so terribly remote, great skiing nearby as well as hunting, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, snow mobiling, every thing an outdoorsman could want; except jobs. I plan to take early retirement in the next year or two so the jobs thing isn't a factor for me.
Wow, the NY Times discovers that women are in fact the dominant partner in married relationships.
Thanks for the news flash! ;-)
businesses discovered that long ago--2/3 to 3/4 of the consumer dollar is spent by women.
Ping.
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