People like to say that buying a house is the biggest purchase you’ll ever make. Well, the median price of a home in 2008 was $180,100. Having a baby is like buying six houses, all at once. Except that you can’t (legally) sell them—and after 13 years they’ll tell you they hate you.
Jonathan Last in the Sept 27 issue of the Weekly Standard – commenting on the high cost of raising a child
Descriptive terms…”parasitic singles” and “dirt gap.”
While the article implies better roads would promote more suburbia, and rural access thus more kids, here in California they are proposing massive gasoline taxes making transportation costs prohibitive to force people into high rises.
Eastman’s tuition is $ 40,000 per year and that does not come with a career. I should have had him sign an agreement to pay me back.