Quote: (12-08-2016 03:24 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
I respectfully disagree. I am not raising my children in a ghetto and they are not going to a shitty school. I have seen what happens when people just have kids in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools. My children are going to be born into an upper middle class environment with no crime and plenty of opportunity.
You have complete control over your children until about 11 years old, then the environment they are in will have a profound effect on how they grow up. Lower class neighborhoods in Atlanta and Miami(I will likely end up in one of these two cites suburbs due to my current professional connections) are violent, and crime ridden.
My parents planned to ensure that me and my siblings were well educated and in a good neighborhood and we all turned out well. I have other relatives that opted to buy a cheaper house in a shitty part of town, with shitty schools and their children paid the price. My children are going to be my priority and I am going to be ruthless in my pursuit of providing them the best opportunity I can.
A decent house in Atlanta in Buckhead is $750,000. That is so your Public School is not a prison pipeline, and your neighborhood is full of professionals. I am paying cash for college , no student loans. I am taking my children on vacations, and my son is going on hunting trips -just like my father did with me. I am going to keep my kids financially covered until they finish Professional School and if I can I will have a Major Medical Practice or Consulting firm with my last name on it for them to Join and one day take over when they finish their education.
My Profession dictates that I must live in or near a major city, there are no Biotech firms in Oklahoma. I also have to be present for networking, I cannot live in Montana and telework.
You didn't actually disagree with any off the points I made though and you didn't refute any of my claims.
You stated exactly what I explained is endemic to middle-class America.
You stated you want to raise your kids in a nicer, higher-value area, in an expensive home near a major city, and offer them lots of luxuries that only a family with a higher bracket of income can afford. There is nothing wrong with that but it is not necessary.
Inferring that raising your kids anywhere but in a 3/4mio dollar home in the nicest part of town, paying out of pocket for all of their higher education and covering all of their living costs until they are in their mid-to-late 20's so they can join your firm is the only alternative to them being criminal statistics is absurd.