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[SouthPaw]

If you had kids, you could make them drive down to Centennial for you.

If I started now, do you think he would still have it in the year 2035 +/-?

Lol, I hear these comments all the time or something along the lines of “it must be nice” or “I wish I had your money.” My answer, don’t have kids..

I probably struck some feelers with that comment but generally speaking, having kids makes life more expensive. We own our house, we own our vehicles, and we've opted to not have kids anytime soon. Hell, we do not even have any pets because we don't want the extra responsibility. This isn't to say that if you have kids, you don't live a comfortable life because my sister and BIL have two and they are very well off. It's simple math; more people in the household, more money needed to support the house.

It's really funny because people ask us all the time when we are having kids and when we tell them never, they look at us like we are the devil himself. This REALLY blows away the older generation and it's almost like they can't believe us . We both love kids but just don't want any of our own which I think makes us very unselfish for making that decision. I think we can all agree there are far too many people out there with kids, that shouldn't.

[davsel]

Idiocracy in action

[SouthPaw]

Idiocracy in action

Care to elaborate?

[Jer]

If I started now, do you think he would still have it in the year 2035 +/-?




I probably struck some feelers with that comment but generally speaking, having kids makes life more expensive. We own our house, we own our vehicles, and we've opted to not have kids anytime soon. Hell, we do not even have any pets because we don't want the extra responsibility. This isn't to say that if you have kids, you don't live a comfortable life because my sister and BIL have two and they are very well off. It's simple math; more people in the household, more money needed to support the house.

It's really funny because people ask us all the time when we are having kids and when we tell them never, they look at us like we are the devil himself. This REALLY blows away the older generation and it's almost like they can't believe us . We both love kids but just don't want any of our own which I think makes us very unselfish for making that decision. I think we can all agree there are far too many people out there with kids, that shouldn't.

Exactly our story too. no complaints here. I also agree though that even if we did have kids we'd be fine because we tend to be somewhat frugal with our money for the most part.

[Jer]

Care to elaborate?

I take it to mean that he's commenting on the early portion of the movie where they say that the intelligent successful people don't procreate to pass along those jeans. Instead it's the redneck hillbillies with no intelligence or sense of responsibility that just fart out the ninos like crazy.

[davsel]

I take it to mean that he's commenting on the early portion of the movie where they say that the intelligent successful people don't procreate to pass along those jeans. Instead it's the redneck hillbillies with no intelligence or sense of responsibility that just fart out the ninos like crazy.

Yes, ^this

However, I would have used "societal parasites" vs "redneck hillbillies;" as there are a lot of intelligent rednecks in our midst.

[Grant H.]

I take it to mean that he's commenting on the early portion of the movie where they say that the intelligent successful people don't procreate to pass along those jeans. Instead it's the redneck hillbillies with no intelligence or sense of responsibility that just fart out the ninos like crazy.

10/10 as a loose paraphrase...

Statistically, however, the middle to upper levels of society are procreating at a lower rate than lower levels. (Not trying to sound like a tool, but it's true).

There are obviously outliers to this phenomenon, but it is statistically true.

My wife and I are technically part of the problem, as we are in our mid 30's, relatively successful, and haven't had kids yet. Among our friends from church, we are the outliers. Including our friends that don't go to our church, we are the norm.

[Jer]

Yes, ^this

However, I would have used "societal parasites" vs "redneck hillbillies;" as there are a lot of intelligent rednecks in our midst.

Not true. You see, you have rednecks and then you have Hillbillies. Either group will firmly tell you which group they belong to and look down upon those of the other group. Combining them is some sort of math that is adding two negatives together but then somehow multiply that times infinity to get the answer.

[SouthPaw]

Idiocracy in action

Never seen it (had to google to see that is a movie of some kind) so probably why it went right over my head..

We always joke that we should be the ones getting a tax credit for not over populating the earth

[hurley842002]

I probably struck some feelers with that comment but generally speaking, having kids makes life more expensive. We own our house, we own our vehicles, and we've opted to not have kids anytime soon. Hell, we do not even have any pets because we don't want the extra responsibility. This isn't to say that if you have kids, you don't live a comfortable life because my sister and BIL have two and they are very well off. It's simple math; more people in the household, more money needed to support the house.

It's really funny because people ask us all the time when we are having kids and when we tell them never, they look at us like we are the devil himself. This REALLY blows away the older generation and it's almost like they can't believe us . We both love kids but just don't want any of our own which I think makes us very unselfish for making that decision. I think we can all agree there are far too many people out there with kids, that shouldn't.

No feelers struck here, I literally meant I chose the wrong career path (financially speaking), as I know people that have more kids than me, but make much more money and live quite comfortably. We all choose what path we want to go down, I've worked hard the last few years to position myself for promotions, so hopefully things will get comfortable for me in the near future. Hopefully my statement wasn't taken the wrong way, as I don't doubt everyone on this sight has worked hard for what they have.