A half drunk pissed offf frustrated drunk mom with an amphetamine scrip from the family doc was pretty standardIn the 50s[/quote]
Only in rolling stones songs was it standard.[/quote]paramount, IIRC, 7 or 8 years ago you posted on this forum several times that you were extremely disenchanted with living in TV and commuting to work in your home county of SD. Acc to your posts back then, for a period of YEARS, YOU BADLY wanted to move back here. Instead, you’ve posted since then that you purchased another residence in TV and rented out your old one in TV. I don’t know if your 2nd home purchase was closer or further from your job in SD County but it doesn’t matter, because, in retrospect, that’s what you really wanted to do, despite you posting here to the contrary.
Could it possibly be that at the time you were house shopping in SD (during the period we had the lowest house prices in recent history) that your household still couldn’t qualify for a mortgage for a house you were willing to accept here in SD County due to you being the primary (or only) “breadwinner” in your entire household?
I’m not trying to be “mean” here. Every adult makes their own choices in life. And everyone’s values are different. But I feel that you were insinuating here that some people are “bad parents” because they are willing to do what it takes to qualify to buy a residence of their choice for their families located in a CA coastal county as close to their jobs as possible. You may want one parent at home with your kids until they leave for college and that is okay. But that parent is not likely going to be bringing in a great deal of income into the household, especially living in the (corporate) isolation of TV. And that must be the way you like it because that is your chosen lifestyle.
The reality is that you had your chance to buy a residence back in your home county of SD a few years ago (while the “getting was good”) and for whatever reason, you chose not to. All I’m saying here is don’t begrudge families who are not willing to do what you’re doing every biz day and want a lot more time with their families. At the end of the day, we all have to sleep in our own beds.
I can tell you that if I was in my 30’s again and working and raising a family today in SD, there is no way in h@ll I would live in TV and have your commute. If I worked in dtn SD, 10 miles from it would be my limit (maybe 15 miles max from dtn for a very exceptional property which I thought was a good deal) but I would prefer not being freeway dependent every day. Life can be short and my time as a parent after the 40-hr wk grind would be very valuable to me. But that is just me.
