Poll: Would you live in a city with no children?

[TheRussian]

No children in the city?
So are we doing the Grand Theft Auto thing?
Huh.
I don't know if that would end well.

 

[lacktheknack]

Wouldn't that make us the next Steelport/Stilwater/Liberty City/etc.?

You know, the cities full of happy people where nothing goes wrong?

Sarcasm aside, no. I really like kids, and want to have a big batch of them myself. Cute little devils.

 

[darlarosa]

Sometimes of course I feel like that would be a good thing.

But part of life is putting up with shit you don't like. You suck it up. Nay, no you balls up and adjust to life.

That and it would never work well. You would force people to commute, then there would be the matter of funds to pay people to move, then you have people who are older and mistakenly thinking the female went through menopause...bow chika wow and end up with another kid...forcibly relocating people is never a good idea, except under certain circumstances. Then you have people who need to run errands....if you need to pick up the kids from school, go to the doctors, and then run to the store before 6 o'clock that night it's rather unfair to force you to find another doctor and store because you wanted a child.

Personally I enjoy some kids, and some are very nice and well behaved for the most part. It is really unfair to say that all kids are little monsters. Kids do have tantrums and get upset, but there are plenty of kids who are quiet most of the time.

 

[Tinygiant]

I cannot say yes fast enough to this.

I don't particularly like children - or the human race, to be fair. So anything that slows or reverses population growth is good for me.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well... when I was working, I was a nursery nurse. So, no.
I'd have no job and no possibilty of one unless it was a long commute. And honestly commuting sucks.

Plus, kids are great. I don't see why everyone bitches about them so much.

Because they're over-pampered, which leads to them being the annoying twits everyone complains about.

I've read an article where the author noted that while they were in a south American country, the family helped out around the house. Guess who did the laundry, washed everything, dusted, made dinner, and cleaned up after everyone?

You said "the mother", didn't you? Nope, the mother was out working. The housekeeping was done by the six-year-old daughter. Complaints were unheard of.

The same article mentioned another child who was baking cupcakes - real cupcakes, mixed herself, from ingredients out of the pantry, in a real oven at high heat using oven mitts, entirely unattended - at age three.

See, if we raised kids to be like that (maybe not so extreme, I'm not letting my three-year old put her hands in the oven), independent and polite, then people would stop bitching about them.

Of course, guess what the chances are of that happening.

 

[lacktheknack]

Sounds like a pretty accurate description of some adults I've met in my life.

Here's the difference; and this goes to every "Well, adults do that shit too!!" people.

Adults, you can hold accountable. You can get in their face and tell them how much of a jackass they're being. You can sue them. You can punch their lights out or have them arrested if it's bad enough.

You can't do any of that if it's a kid.

Try to call a kid out on his/her crap behavior in public. I promise you that almost every time, you'll have mama bear up in your face with the full intention of pulling your spine through your mouth for DARING to raise your voice to her little angel or not minding your own business.

I'm a grocery store cashier, part of my JOB is to stop kids from pulling crap behavior.

And 95% of the time, I'll say something like "Please leave that basket alone, kid." "Please leave the freezer door shut." "Please don't do that to the magazines." and the parent will suddenly become ultra-responsible and grab their kid, move them out of the way, whatever.

There's always the remaining 5%, but they're the people we laugh at and mock in the break room.

 

[Phasmal]

Well... when I was working, I was a nursery nurse. So, no.
I'd have no job and no possibilty of one unless it was a long commute. And honestly commuting sucks.

Plus, kids are great. I don't see why everyone bitches about them so much.

Because they're over-pampered, which leads to them being the annoying twits everyone complains about.

I've read an article where the author noted that while they were in a south American country, the family helped out around the house. Guess who did the laundry, washed everything, dusted, made dinner, and cleaned up after everyone?

You said "the mother", didn't you? Nope, the mother was out working. The housekeeping was done by the six-year-old daughter. Complaints were unheard of.

The same article mentioned another child who was baking cupcakes - real cupcakes, mixed herself, from ingredients out of the pantry, in a real oven at high heat using oven mitts, entirely unattended - at age three.

See, if we raised kids to be like that (maybe not so extreme, I'm not letting my three-year old put her hands in the oven), independent and polite, then people would stop bitching about them.

Of course, guess what the chances are of that happening.

I don't know why people think that growing up X way will solve everything.
There's no perfect way to bring up a kid.
And people will still ***** about kids anyway, even if they are perfectly behaved.

I've known people who will agressively sigh and roll their eyes if a kid is so much as in the same room as them.

I get people not liking kids, not wanting to have them. I don't get the aggressive `OMG DISGUSTING SPAWN!` kind of hate, it's immature.
I don't like those kinds of people, but I wouldn't suggest they be removed from society for my conveniance.

 

[Vamantha]

I would have to say no and only because of how annoying it would be to not live in the same city as my friends that have kids. Plus it would be annoying in many ways trying to work around that shit. I don't like kids, but I seem to be okay with teenagers.

Besides who else can I yell at to get off my lawn?

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Hell yes. Take away the small, yappy damned dogs too, and we can upgrade that to hell fucking yes.

Now get off my lawn.

 

[THeFraz]

I love that song!... oh, wait never mind...

I don't think I could live in a city without children. It would just seem kinda... weird. Like something were missing. Besides, its not like I have to be around them. They just happen to exist in my neighborhood. Big deal.

 

[WaReloaded]

To be honest, I'd rather deal with a bunch of whining children than a bunch of whining teenagers.

OT: I'd rather a city with children, I like seeing responsible parents acting like responsible parents; it gives me hope.

 

[BNguyen]

No, just no.
This is something I cannot get behind in any logical or moral sense.
Kids may be difficult at times to deal with (not all but quite a lot) but they are by no means the hardest persons to deal with in a modern society. Adults are by far much worse simply because they have the power to get into places or obtain things that children can't such as cars or guns or drugs. Most of these things wouldn't even be known to most people under 15 if adults could handle them responsibly (obviously not cars but rather car related injuries). Adults can also be bigger assholes than kids and most of these assholes can at least keep themselves under control when kids are around to make them think twice about their actions.
Sure some kids are stupid and get into alcohol and drugs or take huge risks but these are only a small but very noticeable minority and shouldn't be grouped with the kids who can behave themselves.

 

[Ishigami]

Yea I would live there.
Case is I'm terrible with children. I just don't know what to do with them. (language barrier)
Then I can't stand the noise and stuff... I just want my ?tranquillity?.

Yea I don't plan to procreate myself, you all are welcome.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Kids might be assholes sometimes, or annoying as hell but they have the excuse of not having life experience enough to know when to turn off the jackassery.
Adults however do not have that excuse and I'd much rather live in city where being a douchebag is outlawed. That would be a much better place than one without kids.
Chances are that if you are one of the ones saying you would live in a city like that you'd probably find another group to ostracize and exile until everyone is outlawed from the city and there'd be nothing but asexual robots.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

Things children are good at:
1. Becoming adults
2. Unintentional laughs

Things children are bad at:
Everything else

 

[Ghonzor]

The act of prohibiting something like children (of all things) would go against so many of my beliefs. So no. I would not.

Also, though children are annoying at times, the only reason I do not personally want to have children is because I believe I would be a terrible father. If my own father is any indication. (I sincerely hope not, however.) So even based on my own feelings towards children, the answer would still be no.

 

[Elidibus]

Shitty adults are worse than shitty children, so no.

My thoughts exactly. And my baby will be one year old in a few weeks. Sure, she's kept me up late at night screaming with tooth issues and whatnot. But that moron who lived in the apartment next to me a few years ago? Would. Not. Shut. Up.

How is it possible for one person to make so much noise. And in a studio apartment?

And the idiot 18-25 year olds with their loud music with the bass turned to eleven. I can sleep through loud music. I can't handle my room shaking. And when I beat on their wall, I'm the bad guy?

No. If my baby is crying, it's always for a reason. I provide what she wants and she stops. Newly aged adults are selfish pricks. There is no reason to play generic whore ***** this whatever bass boosted rap music at 3 AM in the morning. (nor is it ok to play such music at 6am.)

And besides. Has anyone here actually done a head count on how many misbehaving children they see in a day, versus the ones that are calm and peaceful? I work around the public a lot (in a grocery store) and there's usually one or two screaming kids. Versus the 50 or so kids between the ages of 0 and 10 that are well behaved. Of course, everyone remembers the two-year-old screaming "No No No No!" so it's no big surprise.

 

[BNguyen]

Kids might be assholes sometimes, or annoying as hell but they have the excuse of not having life experience enough to know when to turn off the jackassery.
Adults however do not have that excuse and I'd much rather live in city where being a douchebag is outlawed. That would be a much better place than one without kids.
Chances are that if you are one of the ones saying you would live in a city like that you'd probably find another group to ostracize and exile until everyone is outlawed from the city and there'd be nothing but asexual robots.

thank you, and sometimes, adults can be much, much worse than kids can be. I mean, why should kids get removed while people (who may be over 18) can still act lie self-entitled assholes. It's not like these people crossed some magic line and now are completely absolved of every stupid thing they did and can still do just because they are slightly older.
It's like, "Hey I used to do that back when I was that age, I had a lot of fun doing it. But now that I'm over this age line, I don't find it fun and everybody who is doing it now at the age I did it is now too unbearable to be around. Make them go away because I'm now a mature person."

 

[BNguyen]

The act of prohibiting something like children (of all things) would go against so many of my beliefs. So no. I would not.

Also, though children are annoying at times, the only reason I do not personally want to have children is because I believe I would be a terrible father. If my own father is any indication. (I sincerely hope not, however.) So even based on my own feelings towards children, the answer would still be no.

I think that the fact you understand your limitations makes you capable of being a father. Most people would not admit to doing anything wrong no matter what they did (even if it was beating their kids). So if you know that much about yourself, then you'll do just fine.