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I am moving to the suburbs. What do I need to know?
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Sat out on the deck yesterday for a while during inspections.
Listened to the leaves rustle, birds chirping, wind chimes rattling. Not once did I hear a car horn, a couple yelling, my downstairs neighbor's dog barking, or a gun shot. Not once did a homeless guy approach me and ask for money because he lives in Liberty and his friend dropped him off and he needs bus fare to get home, but really just needs to score a pint of Wild Turkey or a spot of crack. Not once did someone puke on my sidewalk. My car was not stolen, vandalized or broken into, all of which have happened multiple times in my current apartment. I'm gonna love this shit. **** you guys. |
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I like Lewdog. Having said that, the constant "your life will end and all your cool shit will be ruined when you have kids" thing is so.....I don't know, so.....ignorant. My existance was incredible before kids. Hunting, fishing, camping, golfing, bbqing, working out, traveling, hanging with buddies, etc. Then when I had kids, my life actually started. Now I do all the same stuff I did before, but I have taught my kids how to do it with me. Hell, I hunt and fish more than I ever did, and now my son goes to the gym with me. Your life starts AFTER kids, not before. Takes a man to make a man, as they say, until then.......
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I'm going to have to side with Discuss on this one. The diaper thing alone is a dealbreaker. |
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Maybe what I think of and the places I've lived aren't truly suburbs, but my perception is that most 'burbs tend to have small shopping plazas that crop up near them over time. If you have to drive 30 minutes (traffic aside) to dine in at a restaurant you're probably not in the suburbs, you're in the country. |
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That's insane. |
I've been having some legitimate baby fever lately.
It really is a shame that kids are so expensive and the best time, biologically, to have them is while you're young but finances at that time generally don't permit it. |
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Studies have consistently shown that parents are less happy than non-parents. Maybe get a kitten or something. Kittens are adorable when they chase string. |
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2) Go on the healthiest diet you can manage, especially in terms of your balls and spermatozoa. 3) After a good month or so of a healthy diet, lukewarm showers and wearing loose fitting undies, empty your nuts into a sample bottle at a clinic. 4) Have your baby batter frozen. 5) Live your life for the next 5 years as you please with an extra effort toward saving money for when you're better suited financially for parenthood. 6) Settle down with a lady, make sure she's reproductively fit herself and IVF that shit with your John Wayne'd sperm which, in theory, is better suited for an ideal conception considering the age in which you froze your gametes and the health kick you went on 5-10 years prior. |
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Maybe so. I originally would have been ok with never having children but lately I've been wanting them. I don't think most people ever regret having children in the long run but they definitely do regret not having them. I think it's something I have to do. |
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Solid, logical plan but I'm old fashioned. I'm emptying my nuts straight into uterus like nature intended. |
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What he's saying is that the suburbs are filled with chain restaurants like Chili's, Olive Garden, Applebee's, et al, and to find a unique dining experience, you'd need to drive 30 minutes or more. |
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Mitigate risk, homie. |
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Ah, yes. I see that now. Still not true in my experience. |
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But I get the regret about not having children. Most of my peers now have launched their children and now are starting to have grandchildren, and it seems like that might be a nice situation if none of them are deadbeats. I can see maybe when I'm 80 that I might think, "It would be nice to have Thanksgiving with my hypothetical attractive and non-incarcerated children and grandchildren." |
Sure, most selfish people shouldn't have kids.
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LMAO You know, I'm sure this is absolutely true, particularly if your child turns out to be a deadbeat. I'm at the age now where a lot of females I know had children young and are now single mothers in their mid-20s. None will say they regret having children but that they wish they'd have waited or found the right man first. That's just a socially acceptable way of saying they wish they didn't have a kid at the moment, but in 20 years they might be empty nesters and then, I'm sure, they won't regret it so much. |
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I am moving to the suburbs. What do I need to know?
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This is what's got me contemplating it although I'm not where I want to be yet. In my experience, shit tends to work itself out. And I've known tons of people far less capable than I am to do just fine. |
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God has a way of helping us cope with it....the 1st month or two of diapers is completely harmless and doesnt even smell..its like play dough or a little tar..and youi end up changing a million diapers so it becomes like you can do it blindfold... Then it gets kind of mustardy and just a little stinky, but its a bit easier to clean than the sticky play dough tar.. By the time they are taking real meat/potatoes/stinkbomb shits, youve become numb to changing diapers and it just seems normal...but you are only changing a few a day so it seems actually better than changing a gazillion. |
I see this thread has gone to shit.
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Chick Fil A Drive Throughs are absolute hell on earth during anytime any normal person would eat. Especially when those damn soccer moms cut right into lane 2 instead of getting in the 1st line.
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Listen here buster the thing you need to know in one sentence. You touch my stuff I'll kill ya!
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Housing market is pretty high right now
Congrats on buying a home. I hope they market doesn't collapse after the election |
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I am sorry my posts in this thread read so serious to some of you. But kids aren't for everyone and I wish more people would think about all the things that come with having a child. Sadly, many are accidents and many children as seen as burdens to many parents, they just won't tell you. And for the record, I love kids. I like working with them and interacting with them. Stop bagging on my you asshats. I was thinking this thread was a rather non-serious thread if you actually read the OP. |
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Been seriously considering packing my shit up and heading to Seattle...Chicago is a pretty dark place right now. Burbs are a nice juxtaposition..but then the restlessness sets in and the feeling of being trapped permeates. You'll wake up one morning and think "I've been tricked...neutered by my own doing". |
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Golfers mad because they usually play it out of that yard
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I almost had a research project once that involved sitting in someone's yard and mapping golf ball hits. Her house had been built on a dogleg of a golf course and it was getting pelted all the time. My work was part of a lawsuit against the developer or the golf course or whatever, but they settled the case before I could get the contract in place. That would've been a fun study. |
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