[5yes]

Thank you for the update. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[5yes]

You’re right TG, as usual! My next door neighbor in Harveston will be selling their house (we both bought in 2009) and they have gotten two separate appraisals that show an 8-10% gain, without factoring in a bidding war. There are no other houses on our street for sale and we have an excellent location! I bought soon after you and at an even better deal then my neighbor, have enjoyed the lovely neighborhood, lake, and schools with a mortgage significantly less then current rent prices, mostly thanks to advice from this site and even from you! I usually lurk and don’t post often, but I wanted to jump on the optimistic bandwagon. If your friends are nice, tolerant of small children and willing to share their wine, I know of a home up here on the other side of the city that will be on the market in the next month or two 🙂

[5yes]

Walter, it seems like you are a great dad and we parents are bombarded with such complicated decisions, I think that your kids are lucky to have an involved, caring dad. My husband is an amazing, kind parent also, we do our best and while a little self-reflection is good for the soul, you should also be able to occasionally bask in the glow of doing your best and having great kids, which it seems like you do!

[5yes]

Walter, it seems like you are a great dad and we parents are bombarded with such complicated decisions, I think that your kids are lucky to have an involved, caring dad. My husband is an amazing, kind parent also, we do our best and while a little self-reflection is good for the soul, you should also be able to occasionally bask in the glow of doing your best and having great kids, which it seems like you do!

[5yes]

Walter, it seems like you are a great dad and we parents are bombarded with such complicated decisions, I think that your kids are lucky to have an involved, caring dad. My husband is an amazing, kind parent also, we do our best and while a little self-reflection is good for the soul, you should also be able to occasionally bask in the glow of doing your best and having great kids, which it seems like you do!

[5yes]

Walter, it seems like you are a great dad and we parents are bombarded with such complicated decisions, I think that your kids are lucky to have an involved, caring dad. My husband is an amazing, kind parent also, we do our best and while a little self-reflection is good for the soul, you should also be able to occasionally bask in the glow of doing your best and having great kids, which it seems like you do!

[5yes]

Walter, it seems like you are a great dad and we parents are bombarded with such complicated decisions, I think that your kids are lucky to have an involved, caring dad. My husband is an amazing, kind parent also, we do our best and while a little self-reflection is good for the soul, you should also be able to occasionally bask in the glow of doing your best and having great kids, which it seems like you do!

[5yes]

This thread is chilling in its correctness. My husband’s brother, who turns 30 this year, is living in his parent’s home (they moved into the garage apt) and stealing cash from them, along with not working and being totally dependent on them for everything, from food to shoes. They totally support him, his on and off wife, his drug buddies, his part time gf who sleeps over when the wife is away, and his 2 year old kid. It makes me sick to watch, and has ruined a previously fond relationship between my hubby and my relationship with his parents. I can’t even explain the levels of unhealthiness going on, but I feel bad for all involved, the parents who are now sick but can’t retire, the 30 year old meth head who gets everything handed to him, and the other siblings, including my hubby, who are watching the youngest burn through all of their parent’s remaining years, health, and money. I see no positive end in sight. I moved out when I was 15 and financed my own life and college, you can bet I am teaching my kids independence. I would rather they all ended up moving out early and being super independent like all of my siblings did then even one of my kids winding up like the bro-in-law. Is 6 years old too early start charging rent? Kidding! I agree with almost all the posters on this thread, teaching your kids how to be independent is a hard job, but they will be better people for it, and will treat their parents better for it. I would never speak harshly to my parents who gave little financially, but my bro-in-law cusses out his parents frequently. It is not even an original or shocking scenario, but it sure has ruined so many things… Sad.

[5yes]

This thread is chilling in its correctness. My husband’s brother, who turns 30 this year, is living in his parent’s home (they moved into the garage apt) and stealing cash from them, along with not working and being totally dependent on them for everything, from food to shoes. They totally support him, his on and off wife, his drug buddies, his part time gf who sleeps over when the wife is away, and his 2 year old kid. It makes me sick to watch, and has ruined a previously fond relationship between my hubby and my relationship with his parents. I can’t even explain the levels of unhealthiness going on, but I feel bad for all involved, the parents who are now sick but can’t retire, the 30 year old meth head who gets everything handed to him, and the other siblings, including my hubby, who are watching the youngest burn through all of their parent’s remaining years, health, and money. I see no positive end in sight. I moved out when I was 15 and financed my own life and college, you can bet I am teaching my kids independence. I would rather they all ended up moving out early and being super independent like all of my siblings did then even one of my kids winding up like the bro-in-law. Is 6 years old too early start charging rent? Kidding! I agree with almost all the posters on this thread, teaching your kids how to be independent is a hard job, but they will be better people for it, and will treat their parents better for it. I would never speak harshly to my parents who gave little financially, but my bro-in-law cusses out his parents frequently. It is not even an original or shocking scenario, but it sure has ruined so many things… Sad.

[5yes]

This thread is chilling in its correctness. My husband’s brother, who turns 30 this year, is living in his parent’s home (they moved into the garage apt) and stealing cash from them, along with not working and being totally dependent on them for everything, from food to shoes. They totally support him, his on and off wife, his drug buddies, his part time gf who sleeps over when the wife is away, and his 2 year old kid. It makes me sick to watch, and has ruined a previously fond relationship between my hubby and my relationship with his parents. I can’t even explain the levels of unhealthiness going on, but I feel bad for all involved, the parents who are now sick but can’t retire, the 30 year old meth head who gets everything handed to him, and the other siblings, including my hubby, who are watching the youngest burn through all of their parent’s remaining years, health, and money. I see no positive end in sight. I moved out when I was 15 and financed my own life and college, you can bet I am teaching my kids independence. I would rather they all ended up moving out early and being super independent like all of my siblings did then even one of my kids winding up like the bro-in-law. Is 6 years old too early start charging rent? Kidding! I agree with almost all the posters on this thread, teaching your kids how to be independent is a hard job, but they will be better people for it, and will treat their parents better for it. I would never speak harshly to my parents who gave little financially, but my bro-in-law cusses out his parents frequently. It is not even an original or shocking scenario, but it sure has ruined so many things… Sad.

[5yes]

This thread is chilling in its correctness. My husband’s brother, who turns 30 this year, is living in his parent’s home (they moved into the garage apt) and stealing cash from them, along with not working and being totally dependent on them for everything, from food to shoes. They totally support him, his on and off wife, his drug buddies, his part time gf who sleeps over when the wife is away, and his 2 year old kid. It makes me sick to watch, and has ruined a previously fond relationship between my hubby and my relationship with his parents. I can’t even explain the levels of unhealthiness going on, but I feel bad for all involved, the parents who are now sick but can’t retire, the 30 year old meth head who gets everything handed to him, and the other siblings, including my hubby, who are watching the youngest burn through all of their parent’s remaining years, health, and money. I see no positive end in sight. I moved out when I was 15 and financed my own life and college, you can bet I am teaching my kids independence. I would rather they all ended up moving out early and being super independent like all of my siblings did then even one of my kids winding up like the bro-in-law. Is 6 years old too early start charging rent? Kidding! I agree with almost all the posters on this thread, teaching your kids how to be independent is a hard job, but they will be better people for it, and will treat their parents better for it. I would never speak harshly to my parents who gave little financially, but my bro-in-law cusses out his parents frequently. It is not even an original or shocking scenario, but it sure has ruined so many things… Sad.

[5yes]

This thread is chilling in its correctness. My husband’s brother, who turns 30 this year, is living in his parent’s home (they moved into the garage apt) and stealing cash from them, along with not working and being totally dependent on them for everything, from food to shoes. They totally support him, his on and off wife, his drug buddies, his part time gf who sleeps over when the wife is away, and his 2 year old kid. It makes me sick to watch, and has ruined a previously fond relationship between my hubby and my relationship with his parents. I can’t even explain the levels of unhealthiness going on, but I feel bad for all involved, the parents who are now sick but can’t retire, the 30 year old meth head who gets everything handed to him, and the other siblings, including my hubby, who are watching the youngest burn through all of their parent’s remaining years, health, and money. I see no positive end in sight. I moved out when I was 15 and financed my own life and college, you can bet I am teaching my kids independence. I would rather they all ended up moving out early and being super independent like all of my siblings did then even one of my kids winding up like the bro-in-law. Is 6 years old too early start charging rent? Kidding! I agree with almost all the posters on this thread, teaching your kids how to be independent is a hard job, but they will be better people for it, and will treat their parents better for it. I would never speak harshly to my parents who gave little financially, but my bro-in-law cusses out his parents frequently. It is not even an original or shocking scenario, but it sure has ruined so many things… Sad.

[5yes]

I am very concerned. Something is going on that is way deeper than what we see on the news. I can’t see clearly through the muddle and the hyped-up news stories. Did we Americans start this just like we started (and abandoned to massacre at the hand of Saddam) the Kurdish rebellion? If we didn’t start the protests in Egypt, why didn’t our numerous plants in the region have more information as to what is going on?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020307014.html

I found this article about the beginning of the uprising in Egpyt:

Said, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer—well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that started last week.

The anonymous Facebook page administrator who goes by the handle El Shaheeed, meaning martyr, has played a crucial role in organizing the demonstrations, the largest Egypt has seen since the 1970s, that now threaten the country’s authoritarian regime.

Yet even Egypt’s most active activists have no idea who the anonymous organizer is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110131/ts_dailybeast/12153_elshaheedthemysteriousanonymousbehindegyptsrevolt

So what is going on exactly? Anyone else have any ideas outside of the mainstream media blathering? Does Israel want the Suez canal? Do we? Or is there something else driving this?

[5yes]

I am very concerned. Something is going on that is way deeper than what we see on the news. I can’t see clearly through the muddle and the hyped-up news stories. Did we Americans start this just like we started (and abandoned to massacre at the hand of Saddam) the Kurdish rebellion? If we didn’t start the protests in Egypt, why didn’t our numerous plants in the region have more information as to what is going on?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020307014.html

I found this article about the beginning of the uprising in Egpyt:

Said, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer—well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that started last week.

The anonymous Facebook page administrator who goes by the handle El Shaheeed, meaning martyr, has played a crucial role in organizing the demonstrations, the largest Egypt has seen since the 1970s, that now threaten the country’s authoritarian regime.

Yet even Egypt’s most active activists have no idea who the anonymous organizer is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110131/ts_dailybeast/12153_elshaheedthemysteriousanonymousbehindegyptsrevolt

So what is going on exactly? Anyone else have any ideas outside of the mainstream media blathering? Does Israel want the Suez canal? Do we? Or is there something else driving this?

[5yes]

I am very concerned. Something is going on that is way deeper than what we see on the news. I can’t see clearly through the muddle and the hyped-up news stories. Did we Americans start this just like we started (and abandoned to massacre at the hand of Saddam) the Kurdish rebellion? If we didn’t start the protests in Egypt, why didn’t our numerous plants in the region have more information as to what is going on?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020307014.html

I found this article about the beginning of the uprising in Egpyt:

Said, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer—well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that started last week.

The anonymous Facebook page administrator who goes by the handle El Shaheeed, meaning martyr, has played a crucial role in organizing the demonstrations, the largest Egypt has seen since the 1970s, that now threaten the country’s authoritarian regime.

Yet even Egypt’s most active activists have no idea who the anonymous organizer is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110131/ts_dailybeast/12153_elshaheedthemysteriousanonymousbehindegyptsrevolt

So what is going on exactly? Anyone else have any ideas outside of the mainstream media blathering? Does Israel want the Suez canal? Do we? Or is there something else driving this?

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