Apartment Living

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Apartment Living
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Sat, 12-29-2007 - 10:49am

With all these talk about going from homes to apartments, I wondered how many people think:


1. Going from a home to an apartment is moving "down" in life. (I am not speaking of after the kids grow up and you sell your home to OWN an apartment/condo/townhouse, but a family that owns a home and then sells it to rent an apt.)


2. What are the advantages when you own something and have equity and then go to giving someone else your money to pay THEIR bills?


3. How bad would it have to be living in your home to make the decision to do this?


4. What advantages and/or disadvantages are there to living in an apartment vs living in

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Avatar for mkatherine
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:19pm
Bull. Listen if I take it up on myself to host a party and I tell the parents to drop their kids off what's the big deal? If my kid gets invited to a party it is NOT I repeat NOT my responsility to stay there and "watch her" -- she is under the supervision of the other parent who took on the responsibility of hosting a party. If I WANT to stay then I'll stay if I don't want to I won't and other parents do the same. Again, easy peasy. and FTR My kid does come first -- FIRST I bring her to the party THEN i go do something else. See?
"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:21pm
Hey I'm not proud -- it IS free babysitting and I'll take it and gladly. Invite my kid to a party, tell me when to drop her and when to pick her up and I'll be there wiith her and her $15 bday present and happily so. It's not "bizarre" it's not "uncouth' it is what it is. I'm not that lacking for friends that I have to go hunting them at my kids friends birthday parties...I have other stuff to do and other places to be. She's happy at the party I'm happy doing my thing we're all happy at the end of the day. What's the great big honking deal?
"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:21pm
IME, not only on LI, the parents stay for the parties.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:23pm
I understand if the bday child's parents are friends that you have known awhile (then I wouldn't know WHY you wouldn't want to stay and enjoy the party, whatever....) but it seems these are people that are seen on a daily basis but they don't want to know them that well to talk to them for 2 hours but are ok to leave their kids.
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:24pm

Yah, no one would expect the host to entertain the adults, lol!

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:25pm
How can you say she is NOT your responsibility at a party? Isn't she your responsibility everywhere she goes? If my child is doing something wrong at a party, I am not going to ignore it because "I" wasn't invited and it is a kids party. They are still my kids and I still need to discipline them.
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:25pm
Nope.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:26pm
how many kids birthday parties do you go to where you get to help serve wine? i must be moving in the wrong circles.
"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:26pm

I enjoy meeting new people and many of them you will see year after year after year so what is the big deal to talk to them for 2 hours?


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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 9:26pm
It was that way on LI about a decade ago when your children were that age.

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