You lot all spent your twenties railing against the outdated and unsustainable lifestyles of our parents but now as soon as you sign a pre-nup suddenly you want to go and do the exact same fucking thing.
Leftists are not immune to boomer brainworms I guess. :deeper-sadness:
The wife and two kids in a suburb model is basically the path that has the most social infrastructure. So the alternative is… whatever you can cobble together after you’ve rejected what you find abhorrent. It’s really a feeling of walking upstream
It’s eitherthat or be a rentoid the rest of your life tbh
Living in a city is kinda fucked for Americans who want to settle down and/or have kids. Moving to the 'burbs means:
- You’re paying vastly less money for vastly more space. You’d be hard pressed to even find something you could make a down payment for in big metro areas for most people, and if you did manage to snag it you’ll be paying $3k+/month for the mortgage instead of <$2k/month
- You have access to far better public schools generally. Public schools inside cities are notoriously fucked by arcane property-taxes-become-school-funds shenanigans designed to fuck over the inner cities by racist white people, and while private schools can be really good they can also cost college tuition-level prices
- Your cost-of-living drops dramatically. Groceries, eating out, entertainment, etc are almost always more expensive in dense urban areas, especially since a lot of those are on islands or otherwise in places where it’s more difficult to ship stuff in
The only thing you lose out on is public transit which is absolute dogshit even in most major American cities anyway, so unless you live in Chicago/New York/<insert placeholder here for your city so someone from every city in the US doesn’t immediately get big mad in my DMs> this is a no-brainer.
It’s fucked and ultimately solvable by a society that actually gives enough of a shit to collectively fix it, but for individuals it’s hard to lob blame at people.
so unless you live in Chicago/New York/<insert placeholder here for your city so someone from every city in the US doesn’t immediately get big mad in my DMs> this is a no-brainer
Wrong, no American city has good transit.
Bought an asbestos ridden 1960s home in the oldest neighborhood in a suburb of a midsize city. It was the only affordable way to escape being hounded by landlords. I’d love to live in the city but it’s 2-3x more expensive and even then I would have to drive a car everywhere as the “mass transit” here is a 2 mile straight line that only connects a few affluent areas.
I’m trying to do my part however by refusing to mow the lawn until it gets to the point they can fine me. I’m also looking into violets as an alternative ground cover.
Idk what city you’re talking about but it sorta makes sense, a lot of the time it’s way more expensive to buy a home In a city. Going to the suburbs is significantly cheaper. Although I like living in the city and I don’t have nearly enough money to buy a house lol
