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I had a family member who was in their 60s and had a long, rational reason for not having kids. I learned that they had 5 miscarriages with their partner. So t
by prepend 5y ago
I had a family member who was in their 60s and had a long, rational reason for not having kids.
I learned that they had 5 miscarriages with their partner. So the rationalization was for a decision that was made for them.
Cost of living is a comically facile argument as there’s huge swaths of rural America that are extremely cheap to live in. Especially as a digital worker.
It’s hard to live in NY or SFO, but it’s comically easy to live in South Carolina in an exurb 90 miles out of a major metro area. Like $100k house at 3% and fast internet easy.
- mkr-hn 5y agoYou presume too much. I'm not talking about people who can realistically expect or who aspire to six figures optimizing adtech.
- falcolas 5y agoThose places are slowly vanishing. I live in the sticks - Montana - and houses in my hometown are approaching $500k on the lowest end, and some 1,600 sqft condos downtown are over a million. Rent is in the $2k a month range. We don’t even have a Best Buy. It’s having an effect on the surrounding towns as well, a city over 30 miles away in a bar-postoffice-church size town is up over $300k for an average home.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoLand west of the rockies is worth far more than land east of the rockies. There is lots of cheap land east of the rockies in the sticks.
- falcolas 5y agoI am east of the rockies. And yes, there is a lot of land, but it’s all owned by somebody, and most of it is not up for sale. Ranches, farms, and government owned land makes up, well, all of it. What is for sale could (and likely will) go up in price as demand increases. Also, you may be overestimating how many people are willing to live in the sticks. The lack of essentials (and non-essentials) without driving for miles is a bit of an acquired taste.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMy point was that the sticks in Montana are not representative of land prices in the rest of the country, and that they are on the high end.
- falcolas 5y agoYou are absolutely not wrong. But if it can happen in Montana (and Colorado, and Texas, and...), there's nothing stopping it from spreading.
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- pnut 5y agoCheap places are a false economy in my experience.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> Cost of living is a comically facile argument as there’s huge swaths of rural America that are extremely cheap to live in. Especially as a digital worker. I do not see why it is comically facile to not want to leave in a cheaper place. Everyone has their preferences, and some may choose to prioritize raising children in a certain location over having children at all.
- simonsarris 5y agoDo you really think if those people had children they'd wish they had the posh apartment instead?