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I doubt my kids will be able to make it on their own here
Thats my #1 reason for leaving.
Its gotta be very dissapointing for the boomers right now- watching their kids either flee or live in their basements 'til their 40.
So very broken-
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The NYC area is a great area to raise kids. If you move to some closed-minded, racist Southern town, your kids will grow up to be like that. But if you raise them in the NYC area, where kids are racially diverse, open-minded, and have a large city to their advantage educationally, they'll be ready to go out into the World and will be successful.
Did you do it on your own?
And to answer the question..do you think your kids will have the financel independendence to do it here on there own ?
I know this question wasn't directed at me, but I figured I'd answer anyway.
My DH purchased his/our 1st home (over 500k) on his own. No help from the parents or me. I was a stay-at-home-girlfriend at the time, so there was (and still is) only 1 income.
Today I asked my DH the same question the OP asked:
"Do you think our kids will be able to live here?"
I don't know, I guess the guy doing things legally coming out of college is just a moron? I mean, heck, yeah, everyone graduates and gets that $120,000 job off the bat! Everyone goes to school to be a professional and gets big bucks.
I mean, tell those kids who just graduated in May from college and are working at 'entry level' jobs that they MUST have something wrong with them not to be able to leave Daddy's mansion to buy a place of their own in a year or so on the North Shore.
Forget about the 30 somethings still renting. They MUST be idiots, dahling. Everyone who is ANYONE is a successful lawyer or doctor (or their wives, don't forget the trophy wives).
The NYC area is a great area to raise kids. If you move to some closed-minded, racist Southern town, your kids will grow up to be like that. But if you raise them in the NYC area, where kids are racially diverse, open-minded, and have a large city to their advantage educationally, they'll be ready to go out into the World and will be successful.
Well honeychild there sure aint no racists in da NYC area is there? We folks in da New South have da market cornered on dat like ol' Mr. Fox bein holed by a pack o hounds.
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