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[enigmaticecho]

I saw V for Vendetta last night, I enjoyed it. I was give credit to Hugo Weaving for doing almost the entire movie wearing a mask. In most Comic/Graphic Novel movies it seems like they try and give the actors as much "face" time as possible. I still have low expectations for X-3 however

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[jinx_mouse]

If you are planning on working 2 jobs.. how much time are you gonna be spending at your "own" place anyway? You just need a place to sleep. Not to mention if you are living an apartment your dad is helping you out by renting to you cheap, thats not that realistic. I'd split an apt with you, but Im not even looking. Im planning on going out to school at SUNYIT in Utica/Rome this Sept where my housing costs will be subsidized by my student loans anyway (which Im not happy about, but I don't see much future for me without a degree or some type of advantage, anything at all). Even if I wasnt going away to school, I can do whatever I want at home. I can drink and smoke in my room (and I live in a non-smoking household) my parents don't hassle me about anything. I think my only issue would be space since I own multiple cars.. but would that be remedied by my renting an apartment?

As wages fall and good jobs dry up, more and more people are just staying at home. Or the other side of it , there is a major trend, they call them boomerang kids.... kids that move out then move back in with the parents at a later point. So its not like it would be weird if you do this. I've heard Japan is the same way since thier 1990's housing bubble burst. They call them 'parasite singles' which isn't as negative a term as it sounds (even parasite doubles or something like that, couples living in the parents home). The US states and all over the world actually is in a housing bubble right now. IMO its a waste of money to live on my own. I just don't have the earning power at all. I make $9.50 an hour, $17.5k a year. Leaving out overtime, once I cover rent and necessities I would have nothing left. And there are people with families and mortgages living on that. Im not all about money, not by a longshot, but that lifestyle just does not interest me. In fact over the weekend I was out in Rome/Utica and I seen how fucked up upstate NY is. Sometimes I wonder why some towns exist, when they have shrunk only to the basest level. In 1993 when Romes Griffiss AFB closed down 1/3 of the entire population left virtually overnight. Its the same story all over upstate NY. when the major employers consist of education and medical, thats a problem. The reason thats all thats left is cause tahts all thats required to sustain a population. Most people stay where they are at cause they have family in an area. They have kids and then get stuck and can't move (ie my friends cousin that we visited heading out there).

You should concentrate of doing whatever you have to do to have the highest quality of life whereever you are at. Cause busting your ass to have an apartment and be independant? you can do that anywhere - there is a lot of areas where its not even an option. So why live in a low COL area with no benefit to it? (I could get into how the reason the housing costs are low here is cause of our ridiculous taxes with no services , but thats for another time)

[jinx_mouse]

also, this is more for a parents perspective, but read this for an example of what I was talking about:

http://www.nefe.org/news/news081903.html

Heres a statistic for you: "...more than 25 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 were living with their parents. For those aged 18 to 24, the numbers were even higher; 56 percent of men and 43 percent of women were residing with one or both parents."