The other thing, which is kind of unavoidable, is schedules. Stay-at-home parents need daytime weekday company. People with jobs are at work during the day. Makes it isolating to be a stay at home parent.
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The specific downside of a very ADHD-heavy friend group, which really wears on
@oscredwin, is that people just forget about you if you aren’t on social media as much or didn’t come to the latest party or need advance notice before meeting up.3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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When you’re a parent, meeting friends is something that has to be *planned*. Which sucks if all your friends are “not planners.”
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Honestly one thing that would make it easier is if more of our friends had babies. More babies = more people with the same needs & schedules as us.
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More people in the dreaded suburbs do have children & you've hit upon why.
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I hesitate to be “yay suburbs” because they’re *so* ugly though. I don’t know if there’s an inherent reason the US can’t have nice vernacular architecture affordably, I don’t know urban planning, but it’s the one thing that bugs me.
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I hear you. From a different perspective, one that's more kid-level, the parks & streams & sidewalks of the suburbs aren't so ugly. My pet theory says that density brings kid-unfriendly externalities, but it's important to note it doesn't have to be this way.
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Suburbia has high traffic arterials and children can't run errands/easily visit friends. Small towns are better in both ways, but US has cultural bias against them
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yeah, dumb question, why don't we have small towns instead of suburbs? I guess people like to have large houses and yards, but you could still consolidate the stores & other public buildings in one place and "go into town" when you need something.
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Ultimately racism but also taxation structures.
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