Am I the only one who wears two sport bras to stay compressed enough? I might try this.

It’s not shedding because it isn’t building up in the first place!

Yes to the reassurance period. I’d like it to last between 6-8 hours and only take place on a meaningless weekday, like maybe on Wednesdays. No period pain or PMS allowed.

I have been on hormonal BC all my bleeding life, but I stopped having actual periods about 4 years ago. GLORIOUS. My doctor says that can happen, and isn’t worried. But my mom is suspicious and thinks all that blood is building up inside me somewhere...

That is terrible and great.

That’s easier said than done.

“Life is pretty simple when you make good choices.”

Eh, don’t be so judgmental. Life -can- be simple when you’re making good choices, but if you’re like me and you had used a condom every “experience” of your life, and your wife was even on birth control at the time, nothing is 100% effective. We wanted to wait on a…

TLDR: Don’t have kids or do it in Canada so they become Canadian citizens and you don’t have to deal with all this bullshit between Canada and Mexico

Not if you raise them on the official rural South diet of Mountain Dew and Squirrel Meat! You can really stack those coupons on the Dew and .22 ammo is cheaper than dirt. /s

How wonderfully patriarchal of you.

I bet the unusual distribution of large families throws off the statistical significance. My assumption is that families with more than four kids are far less likely to be in cities. The housing supply for anything with more than 3 bedrooms in a major city has got to very low, making the cost very high. I don’t think…

Come to Buffalo and buy a house for a dollar.

Childcare is one concern with average daycare costs (for one child) of roughly $975 per month. That’s $6/hr of income right off the top.

In geography we call this the Modifiable Aerial Unit problem. States are a bad aerial unit for this sort of analysis. The cost in, say, McDowell co WV (where $45K would be upper class) and the Monongalia or Kanawha co WV (where $45K would barely be middle class) are vastly different from one another. At the least it…

This would be a lot more helpful if it was broken down by county or at least if the major metro areas were separated from the rest of the state.

I could buy some small towns in rural Minnesota for the cost of one house in the Twin Cities. (Okay, they would be very small towns. And actually, I couldn’t, but somebody…

People usually don’t mean post-tax when quoting figures like this, but I am scratching my head at $57k for California. Maybe *somewhere* in the state you can live on that, but forget it in SF Bay at least - my ~$66k isn’t enough for two, never mind if we had a child as well (mainly because rent alone would swallow…

19k to support a small family? Maybe a single person, but not a family.

Yeah the map isn’t really specific enough to say that’s the case for an entire state.. there’s a huge difference between, say, urban Minneapolis and rural Bemidji in northern Minnesota, to use a personal example. And I would guess that’s the same for at least most of the states. The differences lie in the population…

State averages don’t really mean much, since living costs can vary from city to city. For example, the majority of southern Illinois is very cheap to live in, but Chicago brings the average up.

which in this case refers to the income needed to support two adults and one child.