[hedgie]

but now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island. I'll never leave my house because I'll have to care for these children. I'll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise. Even in my moments of thinking about having three, I don't think that deep down I was ever considering it.

This is a joke, right? I mean, she can't be serious about this.

For you non New Yorkers out there - this is so self parodying that it would qualify as a troll if the author wasn't serious. She's basically saying that she can't bear the thought of living in a neighborhood where the only thing wrong with it is that uncool people like cops, teachers and firefighters live there.

And heaven forbid she shop at, gasp, COSTCO. I mean, only uncool people with big families like southwest asian immigrants and Upper East Side WASPs shop there...

[Ohioan from Florida]

Yep...it reads like a parody only it's true. What was it Mark Twain said once, something like, "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

What a twisted evil world we live in.