My Own Private Idaho – DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version
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IMDB rating: 7.00 Plot: Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike’s mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, with Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way. |
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Why would some people say New York City isn't a good place to raise a child?
I’m not sure who drew up these weird rules of what the ”ideal” place to raise a child is. I’m not saying every city is ideal, but not every suburban or rural place is exactly either. One thing I always hear over and over is safety. Unless someone believes what they here in Hollywood, they’d realize cities like NYC, Boston & Chicago are very safe. Someone doesn’t have to be a cop to know how to read crime indexes rather than newspaper blogs and let in sink. New York City is ranked the 136th safest city with populations of at least 100,000, tied with Boise, Idaho. I hope that’s not ”intimidating.” Brooklyn is tied with Hartford, CT, a college town. You could see the links and sources provide on Wikipedia.
You may not own real estate (you may rent) or own an apartment with little property (therefore, low property taxes). You’d be able to afford private school (if that’s your preference). You wouldn’t need to own a car (helping save on not paying car insurance, car loans, wear and tear, gas, ect.). If you were from a suburb in Northern Jersey, if you opt’ed for the city instead you wouldn’t have to pay ridiculous property taxes. You’d have a cheap commute to work. Even if people have less children because of expense, there’d be so many children living in such a close proximity that they’d meet other kid’s as opposed to setting up ”play dates” on a cul-de-sac.
There’s pros and cons to everything. Besides space though (if that’s what someone desires – although it’d be more costly), everything seems to be leaning into the favor of the city. They’d be able to get around as a teenager without you having to chauffeur around everywhere. Wouldn’t it be more ideal to be able to see lots of different cultures first hand? Now just people from all over the world, but all over your country too. 85 percent of people don’t look the same. Not everyone comes from the same background.
You mention ”creeps.” On a suburban cul-de-sac, when no one’s outside, if a couple of kid’s are out on the street and a guy in an Ice Cream Truck asks them if they want to jump on there’s a chance no one will see. With people around everywhere – not to mention a higher cop-to-person ratio, it’d seem like those ”creeps” would have a much less likely chance of getting away with it.
Terrorist attacks is a legitimate concern, but if you were to live in a suburb and commute to New York City, like so many do, the parents would be equally as vulnerable. If it were biological, everyone in the city and nearby suburbs would be screwed. Ironically (and I say that due to higher stress level and pollution), New Yorkers (or New York residents) average a life expectancy of 2 years above the average of the country. People have closer and quicker access to hospitals, doctor offices, clinics, ect. There’s also a larger variety of foods at different stores within walking distance of where you live
You’d also be more custom to walking everywhere which provides exercise. You wouldn’t be lonely and would have a better chance of meeting someone too.
Cause some people just can’t wrap it around their little itty bitty minds that other people kids aren’t theirs and that the rearing of other kids is noneof their business. These people are tarts.
POOP SLUT | Jun 27, 2009
Hi,
Its not a good environment for many reasons,
1.In a distance the smog level is at max
2.There is almost no open space for a child to prosper exept for smoggy parks full of the only creeps who can survive in the dense area.
3.Chances of death there are raised do to cars smog and muggers.
4.Terrorist attacks happen here often including the infamous nerve gas attack on the new york subway.
PotatoMan Is BACK | Jun 27, 2009
Because ppl watch too much tv.. because its easier for ppl to blame all the bad things in the country on major cities such as NYC. Because most ppl can’t afford, appreciate the benifits or the culture of NYC.
There is drugs and crack and meth and all that other crap in every part of the country, weither its in the burbs, the city or in the rural areas. Actually you wouldn’t find a meth head in NYC because that’s a rural thing.. since its cheap to make and the country folk can’t see what’s right in front of them.
Besides that NYC has more cops per square foot than any other major city in the country. Live up in the rural areas and you are lucky to have 4 or 5 cops on each shift.. yeah they are really getting alot done with that little of a police force.
One last thing.. its boring upstate and in other rural areas.. so that gives the kids more free time to do shit that they aren’t supposed to such as getting pregnate, doing drugs, stealing etc.
jezzie1977 | Jun 27, 2009
Well, for one thing, the school system – NYC public schools are not good, and the private schools there are horrendously expensive… as is everything else. In addition, having enough space to raise a family is ridiculous – you couldn’t get a studio/efficiency apartment with rent as low as you’d find for a 3-bedroom apartment or small house where I live. Also, property taxes are ridiculously high in the city cause the property value are ridiculously high – the same size lot my family has would got for FIFTY times as much in a similar neighborhood in Brooklyn or Queens.
As teenagers, it would get better and worse. Yes, they could hop on the subway and go anywhere, but at the same time, where is there going to be for them to light bonfires and build tree forts and play in the creek and tip cows and drive field cars and do all that other kind of stuff? Yes, most of that is dangerous, and perhaps slightly illegal, but that’s part of being a teenager (and it’s a lot less dangerous and illegal than stuff like getting drunk or high is).
So, personally, for raising kids I’d say a 15-minute drive outside of a medium-sized city would be the best… you’re still close to doctors, hospitals, museums, different cultures (I went to a tiny, rural, public high school with kids from several different countries in Africa, and then multiple exchange students each year, my friend went to a rural high school with kids from almost every country in Asia, etc) but as long as you don’t go in same direction as all the suburbs, you’ll be almost as rural as it gets.
All of that said, however, I’d LOVE to live in NYC for a few years as an adult. I don’t want to bother with owning a car yet, I like a city environment, I do realise it’s MUCH safer than my city and infintely safer than the city where my siblings are hoping to go to college (my brother is in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the nation), enjoy the higher cop-to-person ratio (as I’ve outgrown the dangerous/illegal phase of my life), and so on, but I wouldn’t want to raise a family there. What’s the very bottom end of the middle class in NYC involves the same amount of money as the very upper end of the middle class anywhere else.
Twilight Princess | Jun 27, 2009