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Does anyone care anymore about just having five kids and a backyard and a loving spouse and a wall full of books and solid church community? I'm so tired of pe

• arkitaip 4y ago
  Most people want those things. The HN bubble just makes it seem like doing a startup is the apex accomplishment in life.
• askafriend 4y ago
  1. What you describe sounds awful (except the loving spouse part). 2. This is a community of people interested in startups. This isn’t a general purpose audience nor is it meant to be.
• ryanmercer 4y ago
  My wife and I are quite religious (LDS). We have 50~ nieces and nephews, 2 rooms full of books, a little over a half acre yard, grow a sizable percentage of our produce, and nature willing would like to have kids. I still would like money though, lots of money. I need 600k-1 million USD to quit working just to live. With my current income, inflation, etc., I'll likely still be working until I physically can't though. If I magically had that 600k-1 million today to retire, I'd then be content on the money side. I would have the freedom to pursue whatever I wanted to do with my time, from volunteering way more to tinkering with crafts/considerably expanding our growing/YouTube/writing/whatever. You can want a morally upright life with lots of personal relationships, and still want/dream of a nice little pile of money.
• Nicholas_C 4y ago
  Where do you live? This ideal is alive and well in most of the U.S. outside of the big cities.