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| Mon, 11-05-2007 - 11:13am |
WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 months of totally unpaid leave?
- Yes, we have enough saved up for that
- Yes, we could save up enough for that
- Yes, DH makes enough to get us by
- No
- other
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LOL!
I'm going to try to address all of your points in one shot, but let me know if I've left anything out.
1. The model you are talking about-- commuting from the suburbs to a central city-- makes up only 19% of all metropolitan commutes. Once you subtract the 9% of people in metropolitan areas that reverse commute (live in central cities and commute to the suburbs), you would have about 10% more people in cities. That's about 10 million people. Spread out among the 258 cities with a population over 100,000, it would be about 40,000 people for each city. And if you distributed the gain in population in proportion to the size of the city (i.e. NY or Boston would gain more than Houston or Memphis), I can't imagine that the increase in population would be so hellish as to make cities unfeasible. Far more people commute from one suburb to another. So living and working in the same community does not mean all cities would be hellishly overcrowded.
2. I think there are far more people who commute that work in fairly benign industries than those who work in industries unpleasant to live near (i.e. airports, paper mills, chicken farms, etc.) Furthermore, working in one of these industries does not necessary dictate needing to live 25+ miles away from it.
3. I prefer duplication of services and businesses to "walmartization" and urban sprawl.
Of course, since I'm talking about my ideal world, all paper mills and chicken farms would smell like roses ;)
Edited 11/10/2007 12:17 am ET by geschichtsgal
Kitty
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Kitty
"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t
That's a LIE, AND you know it, as I am very much a TV addict and I have said numerous times that I would and HAVE cut out cable when necessary.
Why would you lie about something that is SO easy to disprove?
Kitty
"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa
Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165
~~~~~~~~~
Kitty
"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t
Really? I believe every irony meter in America just exploded....
Kitty
"Armour.com also has some wonderful tips for emergency preparedness, which include laying in a big supply of canned meat products. When the end comes, you can ponder whether you've been eating the Four Horses of the Apocalypse."--Moon.Pie.Zappa
Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165
~~~~~~~~~
Kitty
"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t
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