Originally Posted by Moboy32

I disagree. I think that "backwardness" "isolation" "poverty" and "rednecks" is a problem in pretty much all states. Yes, even in the state of Washington. But Washington state usually finishes high up in the polls. Gun-totin and former slave state is something that many other states share, like Georgia and Maryland. For the most part, the poverty and isolation isn't out of the ordinary, so I just don't think this answers the question.

Ohio seems

Originally Posted by luzianne

I really haven't seen any pigs running loose in Kansas...

Originally Posted by StabbyAbby

It's "selfish" because the childfree individual is putting their own wants and needs above their "tribe"'s need to perpetuate, expand and dominate.

The government wants more soldiers and taxpayers.

Corporations need more cheap labor and consumers.

Organized religion wants more followers.

Originally Posted by TinaMcG

Neighbor kids at our house in Chicago -- and I wanted to kill them. I backed the car out of the garage and there was this gang of kids, 10-12 years old, on bikes and skateboards, throwing tomatoes at each other. They had been around to the side of the house and stripped all my plants of dozens of ripe ones I was planning to pick. I nearly ran into them before I saw them in my rearview mirror. Kinda wish I had.

No one has EVER heard me scream like I did that day. The kids in suburban

Originally Posted by Samantha S

With today's real estate market, I'd want to know I was staying somewhere at least 5-6 years before buying a house. Especially one in a place like Topeka.

In Lawrence, you might be able to get away with it. Smaller houses are often easy to trade in Lawrence because people buy them and rent them out to college students.

So long as you don't mind the commute. Otherwise, I'd find a cheap place to rent in Topeka, if you don't mind living in Topeka.