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I thought you expressed disdain at the concept of stay at home moms, Ariete.
By the way, in the US, mothers (and fathers) working at companies with over 50 employees are protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act and must be given the same position at work when they return as well.
Fifty percent of Finnish mothers with kids under 3 don't stay home though, in spite of any subsidies. Same percentage of American moms.
And hey, Finland even has a church tax! Woohoooo! Go, Jesus!
Kathryn, we have FMLA, but the main caveat here is that our FMLA is unpaid leave. In the EU, FMLA is fully paid, and often has more allowance for leave than FMLA's 4 months or so.
Yeah we have them too, but they aren't as common anymore. It's been 4 decades since 1940s and 1950s neighborhoods were built
The main road is right around the corner, lol. Suburbs here aren't endless tracts of land that are completely isolated. That's what rural communities here. A lot of suburbs here are only 5 minutes away from businesses.
Yeah we have them too, but they aren't as common anymore. It's been 4 decades since 1940s and 1950s neighborhoods were built
In a lot of the Northeast, there hasn't been much construction since the 1970s. Area I grew up in had some but not much.
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The main road is right around the corner, lol. Suburbs here aren't endless tracts of land that are completely isolated. That's what rural communities here. A lot of suburbs here are only 5 minutes away from businesses.
Those look like exurbs, not suburbs, to me we have those here too, a lot of them are along the Turnpike in Lancaster County
A lot of New England including outer Boston is like that, more than many people realize. The West, especially California doesn't have much of those. Instead, you have new packed in suburbia like shown in the OP. Typical outer suburb of San Francisco:
Looks nice until the water runs out. That San Francisco suburb may even vote Republican, if it does probably not by much; overall county Obama won by a 35 point margin so unlikely.
The style is different but it's not markedly different from many suburbs in North America.
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not Norwich, but the towns around it, which is where me and wifey wanna move to.
That San Francisco suburb may even vote Republican, if it does probably not by much; overall county Obama won by a 35 point margin so unlikely.