Apartment Living

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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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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:16pm

I do accept it but it seems people are more social IMO at the parties and places I attend. We are interested in meeting people and wanting to know them and since our kids will be in years and years of school together and we will see each other at many functions, there really is no harm.

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:17pm
I'm done with you.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:17pm
So if you went to a party out someplace from 3-5, they wouldn't feed the kids? Every party that I have attended feeds the kids (and parents) no matter if it is 9am or 9pm. The party we went to in the summer was a couple of hours and DID have an end time. It started at 2pm and they bbq'd for everyone and had cake.
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:18pm
And to have just a 2-hour block of relaxing, nearly-uninterrupted time at someone's house.
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:19pm
Who's twisting words now, lol!
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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:19pm
Swell for you. let me tell you how thigns are in Northern New England -- you have to be here minimum three years before the chill starts to thaw from the neighbors. We have close friends and we have acquaintances. sometimes parents of our kids friends are both, more often than not they are not. my close friendsa re not liza's friends parents. They are my acquaintances. I don't know their birthdays their favorite color or what they watched on Tv last night nor do i care. the only thing I MIGHT know about them is who they're gonna vote for in the primary next Tuesday but even that is doubtful as we're pretty guarded about that too. The fact that our kids happen to be in the same school RIGHT NOW does not automatically mean I want to start hanging out at the Olive garden with the parents on Saturday night. It means our kids are in school togeth eright now. nothing more. I know a few of the moms kinda well. others not at all. no biggie either way. I have lots of friends from my honest to good ness real grown up non mommy life.... that suits me fine.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:20pm
Many parties I go to do not end after the 2 hours as it is either in someone's home or at a place like CEC that is not closing. My dd's party lasted 4 hours one time as the kids were having too much fun and we didn't care as we were having a good time too talking up a storm. Many places I have gone to you don't have to run after your child so you can sit and enjoy conversations and still see your child in site.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:20pm
Now see I've had some of the best conversations with other parents at the soccer field. The political discussions got really juicy this fall. go figure.
"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: 12-06-2004
Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:21pm

Ok, I am a little confused. When you go to a place, say Chuck E Cheese, the package includes, pizza, drink, cake and a favor bag

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 10:23pm

I'll go slowly this time.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I feed them cake and ice cream. If I'm feeling really wacky I may put out some chex mix. I have never fed them a "meal" . I Barely feed me and Liza you think i'm gonna feed a hord of hungry parents and their offspring? think again. cake and ice cream. that's it. Last year they got dinner because (wait for it) we took liza and erh ONE friend OUT to dinner. That was it. that's all she wrote folks. Telling me how many barbecuse you go to is never going to change the way I do things.

"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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