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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2360916" data-attributes="member: 945">I read an article a couple of weeks ago talking about how no one was having children in the San Francisco area anymore.  It talked about how the cost of living had reached a point to where people had to have two incomes in order to afford a house and there wasn't time to raise a family. Combine that with a large gay population, and you have a city where very few people actually have families anymore.I knew this was a problem in Italy (not the gay population part), but I saw a news article talking about how men there live at home until they're well into their 30s, and women all get careers, and have no desire to settle down. In one Italian town, they talked about closing the elementary school altogether since they only had like 3 students enrolled in kindergarten. Interesting.Another thing about this "study" that I don't understand is the concept of a vacation home. I've only ever known a handful of people who had a vacation home. The very idea is a strange one to me, and seems more prevalent on the east coast. People from the midwest just don't do this. I'd rather travel the country when I go on vacation. I wouldn't want to go to the same place year after year, unless I'd already been everywhere else, and loved this one place more than any other.I also don't understand why companies which exist in places like Silicon Valley don't relocate to the midwest.  I would think those places would have much happier employees, who didn't have to spend 2-3 hours a day driving into work. That, and I would think they'd have a hard time recruiting people who didn't already live there.  I know I'd move to Boise, ID or Pierre, ND before I moved to San Jose, CA.  Any. day. of. the. week.I don't know the secret to making a lot of money with a degree like journalism, or teaching, or social work. Those are hard fields to succeed in. To be successful, you have to be super good at what you do. Charisma and intelligence helps a lot. In my field, you have to find a niche, and it helps if it's in high demand. If you're the only guy that can fit the round peg into the square hole, and companies are all looking for people who can do that, then you can command top dollar. That's true in a lot of fields.  IT and healthcare are good fields to make a decent living in.  But I think you can be successful in any field if you're willing to take on a lot of risk. I'm not a big risk-taker, but I think for those who are, you can make a lot of money if you're bets pay off.</blockquote>

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