What do you think of this:
In Canada, unlike many other countries, fertility rates and desires rise with income: richer Canadians have more children. Children increasingly come as a capstone to material and relational success, and thus later in life, rather than as a building block for family life.
https://www.cardus.ca/research/family/reports/she-s-not-having-a-baby/
I have no idea how trustworthy this is but so far, it feels ok.
What makes you think it is a city problem?
It feels like a city problem but really, it's the way we drive our community. We live with each other and yet, we don't really. There is no opportunity to know our neighbors unless we do the weird knock on their door and just talk. No one is doing that.
It feels that in rural area, this opportunity is more present because there is less people and therefore, you will meet them. In my city, I have never saw my neighbors in a grocery store in many years. From my point of view, that is one element that drive the fertility rate down. Feeling alone and not supported won't make you feel safe to bring a child.
But I may be completely "out there" because this is just what I feel. I don't have data about it and I wouldn't know how to begin.
Maybe I'm just ranting about how we are so close together and yet, so far apart. Is this the real reason why fertility is down ? I don't know and I wonder.
It's cool that you have great anecdotes about how great it is for you. I am an immigrant myself so I'm absolutely not against immigration, far from it. I'm not saying ImMiGrAnTs ArE rUiNiNg OuT NaTiOn. I'm saying that our communities are not for community anymore but more an organisation that is for profit.
I know that it's common knowledge that the richer you get, the less children you want but why is that the case? I feel like there's something wrong when your cities is less and less welcoming of families that you have to patch it with immigrants. It's not about having immigrants or not. It's how the cities are organizing themseves and that somehow prevents people from having families. Or maybe everyone just chooses to not have children which I would love to see a paper about it.
It's not necessarily a "garbage" argument. When 100% of your population growth is immigrants, it does not feel right. My point is that when your local population does not feel like they can create families in their community, replacing that with immigrants is probably not a good way to patch the problem. I mean, our environment is so shit that less and less people feel comfortable creating families.
Another question I never had a response to is the difference between a population that its growth is majority immigrants versus locals. How different the city will evolve in either case ? Immigrants are usually coming from an economic, capitalist need. What does this say on our communities ? Our places are so crappy that you can't even have your own children ? What's the point of a community ?
It is possible. As long as the protocol allows sending bytes of data controlled by the user which XMPP allows.
You would basically wrap http with XMPP. You need a server that would understand XMPP, read the payload, create the http request, do the request for you, wrap the response with XMPP and send it back to you.
You can do that with DNS as well which would bypass probably everything. However, your bandwidth wouldn't be great.
J'habite malheureusement dans une banlieue. Mon "centre-ville" de banlieu est une mare de parking. S'y rendre en bicycle est assez dangeureux donc j'opte plus souvent pour l'auto. C'est vraiment à chier. Fuck les char, autant que c'est vraiment nice de pouvoir partir quand tu veux ou tu veux que hostie qu'on a détruie nos villes et nos environnement de vie.
Ma banlieu a pas d'âme, j'y suis pas attaché, je m'en sacre.
Quand j'habitais en ville, j'aimais mon quartier pis mes voisins. Mais fuck, j'peux pas vivre avec toute ma famille dans un 4 1/4 tout pogné pis de stressé quand mes enfants sortent dehors en espérant qu'ils regardent des 2 côté de la rue pour pas se faire fesser par un char.
Pour vrai là, la raison pourquoi chu en banlieue, c'est pour que mes kids puissent jouer dehors sans trop me stresse qui perdent pas la vie dans rue parce qu'un tawin est trop pressé.
J'veux pas de char dans mon quartier. J'veux des parcs, de la belle architecture. Pas d'la caliss d'asphalte pis des tonnes d'acier sur 4 roues partout dans ma rue.
Fuck les char, esti que ça a gâché notre future.
There is a French word for geek : "Tronche". You would use that word like this : " ce que tu fais c'est vraiment tronche"eaning what you are doing is very geek.
Montreal ça se fait mais en région ou même en banlieue, pas tant. La banlieue, c'est un immense dortoir. Y'a rien a faire là.
To be honest, the girl's category may not be as useful as it used to be but in certain country, it definitely is still very useful.
If transwomen wants to compete, compete in open. In my opinion, this has nothing to do whether or not a transwomen is a women but with the environment a person is growing in.
He also had schizophrenia, most probably.
Though question to crack. Anyway, thanks for the conversation, I really appreciate it. Cheers!