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Re:The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Agains... by zwieback on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @02:25PM (#4445107)
The stuff equation changes once you have kids. Cars and appartments get bigger and stuff accumulates. Luckily you can live on a lot of hand-me-downs that get handed down again but at our house there are also continuous trips to Goodwill to get rid of stuff.
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Re:The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Agains... by bergie on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @05:04PM (#4445887)
I'm seeing the when you have kids argument a lot in these threads. It seems to be a big assumption a in world where many don't want to or can't have kids.

Purely anecdotal, but it seems those who want kids tend to make more than one or two of them, while many do not procreate. This leaves very little incentive for living in the suburbia.

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