Do people need a reason to SAH?

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Registered: 03-29-1999
Do people need a reason to SAH?
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Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am

This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.

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Registered: 05-10-2009
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:09pm

I have friends - siblings - who are:



Mandy
Andy
Randy
and



JEFF.

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Registered: 08-29-2002
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:10pm

"On the front page, no, but not too far into the paper.
Not too hard to go on the local school district site and find the salaries. "

Ah, so you DO search for salary information! After all, you actively search for it in the paper and online. Thanks!

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Registered: 07-17-2007
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:21pm

I can see that. It looks like your state is about the same size as my county (within 10%)! I tried to find out how county employees we have but couldn't find it. I am sure it is there on the website somewhere but there is so much information that it makes it difficult. I did see that our county budget is larger than 4 states. Our public school student population is more than 8 states. So maybe we do better in terms of budgeting.

I know our tax base is relatively low. Our property tax rates are about half of my sister's in Connecticut.

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Registered: 06-24-2008
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:34pm

Just a general comment. Now that we are talking about it I recall my dh has looked up teacher salaries online. They are listed by name, and give what that teachers base salary is. I think he was looking to see what the music teachers made, I forget why but he had some reason. We were shocked how much the elementary teachers made, it's very high.

I think too in most places I've lived I could tell you if someone is a renter or if they bought the home if I've lived there very long at all. For one, when I've bought we look at comps in the area, so I know what most of my neighbors have paid and their names. You can easily tell if a home is up for sale, sometimes I'd look to see what it sold for. If someone moves in and there wasn't a for sale sign up, odds are they are renting and you'd see people moving in and out of they are renting, usually. Not a perfect science but I'd be able to get most of them right if I had to guess. I know (or am at least really sure) there is only one rental on our street, everyone else owns and has lived here a long time.

I don't know the occupations of all the residents of our street, but if we gathered the kids up and dh, we could probably piece together most of them. I don't know them myself because I don't have an interest in it nor a memory for it. I can tell you which one of my kids mom's SAH though, and which ones WOH, and what some of the dads do. I'm more interested in kids friends parents than the other random people on my street.

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Registered: 06-24-2008
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:37pm
That's funny. All our kids have rather traditional sounding names, nothing fancy, not too common but not unique either. It wasn't coordinated either since 4 of the 6 kids were born before dh and I met, but they do all go nicely together and it sounds like it was planned.

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Registered: 05-10-2009
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 12:38pm

I'm definitely guesstimating. I know that my University has 7500 employees alone. Add in the other major U, the smaller Us, and all the state agencies and I'm guessing it has to be close to 50,000 ...



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Registered: 07-17-2007
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 1:01pm
This thread reminds me how I am frustrated at times with our current form of a "local" government. We don't really have a "local" government when it is the size of a state. I grew up in NE and we had town meeting members. Several hundred for 25,000 people.(- or at least it seemed that way. I am sure if went back I would be amazed at how small the meeting house actually is. Things are so much bigger when you are a child.) You really know your local politicians. They are your neighbors. We have a five member board of supervisors for over 1 million people. It is much more difficult to get to know them. Not impossible, but more difficult.
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 1:14pm

LOL, unofficial neighbor watch, i like that.



i like that we're approachable adn so are neighbors ( for the most part, i won't dig up dirt about a neighborhood kid ).

 

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Registered: 02-23-2010
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 1:24pm

They publish a list of all teachers and anyone else working in the schools and their salaries individually by name.

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Registered: 02-23-2010
Wed, 09-08-2010 - 1:25pm

"Yep and not sure who ever said they DO have conversations that ONLY consist of "how much do you make or do you rent or own"."

Well, I can't help the impression I'm getting from this conversation that in certain cultures that sort of information is considered important or interesting :-).

Well not IME

"lol!! What type of relationship DO You have with your neighbors?"

A good one. To say more than that would involving gossiping or bragging, in my book.

Ok...lol!!

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