If you had the money, would you raise your kids in NYC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assuming you have the money for a good life - a suitable apartment for your family, good schools, extra curriculars, vacation, etc.

NFW.

[Anonymous]

Have you watched this?

[Anonymous]

Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My brother is don’t this.
We could afford it but I’d hate it. It’s just such an extreme version of everything—getting kids on preschool wait lists before they are born, competition for getting into even public high schools. The disdain for things hat aren’t chic or urban. I don’t like riaising kids thinking that’s normal. My brother is an aggressive competitive type and he thrives on the NY superiority complex. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, sure. But do you have to be able to make it anywhere? Isn’t it good enough to make it somewhere?

The NY superiority complex is so annoying. So many New Yorkers are obsessed with NY and make it a huge part of their identity. They think normal things or events like going to brunch, drinking at a bar, private schools, concerts are truly unique to New York. Even when I visit I am shocked by how much people talk about NY. I lived in NY for years and it’s not that big of a deal.

Ha! I think this is true. This is another end of the spectrum, but I’m from southern Ohio and was once told by an NYC native that heroin addiction was a huge problem in the city, and I had probably never seen anything like it.

New Yorkers think they have a claim to everything. I once had a New Yorker ask me if I’d ever been to a Whole Foods. First off, my hometown had a Whole Foods years before they had whole Foods in NYC. I told this person that Whole Foods is from Texas and it’s like they didn’t really believe me. Also it’s just a grocery store. Only a New Yorker would go to the Whole Foods at Columbus circle and think they are special because of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you watched this?

Whatever. There are tons of movies about screwed up kids in suburban and rural America.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

I assumed you were joking with that post. As a pp pointed out, there are as many movies highlighting the dysfunction of rural and suburban childhood, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

I assumed you were joking with that post. As a pp pointed out, there are as many movies highlighting the dysfunction of rural and suburban childhood, too.

Where is the movie highlighting the dysfunction of UMC rural kids? I can’t think of one.

Also, why are the choices NYC or suburbia? There are a lot of other cities out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

I assumed you were joking with that post. As a pp pointed out, there are as many movies highlighting the dysfunction of rural and suburban childhood, too.

Where is the movie highlighting the dysfunction of UMC rural kids? I can’t think of one.

Also, why are the choices NYC or suburbia? There are a lot of other cities out there.

Was KIDS supposed to be UMC? You know it was fiction, right? Hard pressed to find anything portraying UMC rural childhood but Boy comes to mind. Who is suggesting it's NYC or suburbs?

[Anonymous]

No. I would consider raising kids in NYC a form of endangerment and abuse.

[Anonymous]

Nah. Too much city for me. Prefer more mid-size places. Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh, or Minneapolis.

[Anonymous]

No. I raised mine somewhere I could take them to the beach and on hikes, etc all the time when they were little. Too much concrete jungle.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

I assumed you were joking with that post. As a pp pointed out, there are as many movies highlighting the dysfunction of rural and suburban childhood, too.

Where is the movie highlighting the dysfunction of UMC rural kids? I can’t think of one.

Also, why are the choices NYC or suburbia? There are a lot of other cities out there.

Was KIDS supposed to be UMC? You know it was fiction, right? Hard pressed to find anything portraying UMC rural childhood but Boy comes to mind. Who is suggesting it's NYC or suburbs?

I know right? Fiction.

Those parts about teen HIV infection, drug use, and violence, none of those things exist in real life, duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I would consider raising kids in NYC a form of endangerment and abuse.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I would want to have enough for private schools all the way through, and a vacation house outside of the city. All of this without either parent having to work more than 50 hours per week, and no more than 80 working hours total between both parents. If I could do all of that, I would love NYC.

Signed,

Born and raised in DC.

You didn’t watch the movie, did you.

I assumed you were joking with that post. As a pp pointed out, there are as many movies highlighting the dysfunction of rural and suburban childhood, too.

Where is the movie highlighting the dysfunction of UMC rural kids? I can’t think of one.

Also, why are the choices NYC or suburbia? There are a lot of other cities out there.

Was KIDS supposed to be UMC? You know it was fiction, right? Hard pressed to find anything portraying UMC rural childhood but Boy comes to mind. Who is suggesting it's NYC or suburbs?

I know right? Fiction.

Those parts about teen HIV infection, drug use, and violence, none of those things exist in real life, duh.

Certainly not in the suburbs, duh.