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

[Unia]

Another one of these "I can't stand people not in the same demographic as me" threads. While you're at it, ban pensioners won't you. They're slow, sickly and always complaining. They are nothing but a cost to society.

Also the whole notion of a city without children is absurd. Even if you managed to make it, keeping it going would be impossible. Believe it or not, even you may very well change your mind about having kids once your own mortality crosses your mind. So how about adding castration as a prerequisite to move in, hmm?

Off topic but this whole thing reminds me of that Turkish law that allows authorities to evict people from their homes without providing a new one. Granted, it's supposedly to demolish buildings not built well enough against earthquakes...

 

[Bocaj2000]

Isn't this place you're talking about called a college town?

 

[Zetatrain]

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 understand what you're saying but here's the way I see it.

If you have a problem with an adult then you deal with the adult.
If you have a problem with a kid then you deal with the adult/parents since they are the ones to be held accountable.

If you are willing to get into a verbal or even physical fight with an adult over what he or she did then you why would you have a problem dealing with a parent over what their kid did?

 

[rob_simple]

Is this a real place? If so, I'd move there tomorrow. I've never understood the whole 'children are the future' mindset, as if the continuation of our species is in any way important.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Sure, If I had a job there. I wouldn't move there just because because the city has really strange and restrictive rules. It seems like a weird place to me.

 

[Kae]

That would be a lot of the government budget wasted on something completely stupid, so no, I wouldn't want to live in a city where my taxes are wasted on the stupid and completely useless task of keeping children away, and where people get punished with being practically banished from the city for doing what humans are naturally predisposed to do, which is procreate, so yeah no.

 

[PureIrony]

The idea of a city with no children is a bit too Orwellian for my tastes, but I would partake in their restaurants and supermarkets.

 

[Hjalmar Fryklund]

No way. I wouldn't be averse to visiting though.

If only to realize all the more why I like kids.

 

[MammothBlade]

Hell yes I would. My lawn would look better and I wouldn't have had to replace my damn mailbox three times this year. Also could eat at my favorite italian place in peace.

If that's the case you probably live in a bad neighbourhood.

I explained the difference already; I can deal with them. I can call them out on their behavior without worrying about some mama bear or papa wolf telling me to back off and mind my own business.

Good parents won't tell you to mind your own business, they'll take heed and discipline their children for bad behaviour. And what of aggressive adults who have the frame to get physical if you stand up to them? Grown adults are much worse than a few stupid kids.

Didn't say they weren't. Just don't want to have to hear them or have to deal with them destroying my property.

So your attitude is: "I know they're vital to society, but not in my backyard." Not literally of course, but in your community.

That was lighthearted? Sweet merciful lovecraft, if throwing people in concentration camps is your idea of light, I hate to see you when you get DARK.

Relax, the point is there was no intent behind what I said. Oh and my dear friend Lovecraft gives you his regards, he's chilling in the wastes of Antarctica. I don't think he can talk.

 

[Ledan]

How about a city with a three strike asshole policy?
No matter if you are a kid or an adult, if you are an asshole 3 times you get banned from the city. Maybe adjust that number because this isn't baseball -_-

 

[J Tyran]

What if I'd like for our race to disappear?

Well then... nuke everyone? Hell, I don't know.

Combine gestation suppression field ftw.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I don't think I would, it would be too much to ask for just children who aren't f***ing obnoxious and loud and cry in concerts because we'd have to figure out a way to sort that out. And while not having to show ID could be handy, they really hardly ask for it anyway.

 

[Daverson]

Hell yes I would! When can I move there?

The male and female options are really to see what gender ratios would be like in the city.

You do realise that's going to be thrown off by the fact that roughly 80% (if not more) users on this site are male? (That being said I think a city of no kids would be more enticing to those with a Y chromosome anyway.)

Wouldn't really effect the male/female Yes:No ratios, handwavy guesstimates would put the current results at about 1.5-2 men for every woman.

 

[M0rp43vs]

I'm gonna say no because I actually do like children(watch the feds bust my door down for this phrase) and at the very worst, tolerate them. They are a lot smarter than most give credit for.

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.

I was gonna post something like this. Believe it or not, it does reflect on the parents when a child acts up and it is pretty damn embarrassing when they start acting up. I just like to add parents who shout and scold children for even the smallest slights and embarrass themselves more than their children did. We just remember the loud kids more because they are, well, louder.

Oh, and for the people talking about sweet 16 and such, isn't that like pointing to Jersey shore and saying that's how Jersey is, or saying Fox news is reflective of what the whole of America is?

 

[Erttheking]

Live in a city that will be completely dead in 60 years? Pass.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

EDIT: Double post. The horror.

Oh god, what have you done?!

OT: But then who would I expose myself to at the park? Adults just don't give you the same reaction. Totally kills the buzz.

 

[the December King]

Seeing as I have kids of my own .... no.

I love that you thought about it for a sec!

As for me, I'd try it out for a while, sure. Just to get the feel of it, and all- it might be nice. But, it might not- most of the kids I have to see, I'd still see, because I usually have to go visit family / friends with families. And around here, it IS the older crowd that is obnoxious and loud and irritating...

So it really comes down to whether I'd get free parking.

 

[Terramax]

Am I the only one who thought of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and this guy?

 

[Launcelot111]

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

My first thought as well.

Seriously though, this city would be a mess. Schools would close and most entertainment or family-oriented enterprises would take a big hit to their business. On top of that, everyone with families of their own (who are a huge chunk of the taxpaying public) would leave, to be replaced with a bunch of cynical early 20s assholes with relatively little money or job experience. Massive unemployment would exist, and public works would shut down due to lack of funding. Most of the police force would have left along with the firefighters and most of the city government. The city would fall apart, and all the cynical early 20s assholes would leave, saying its not their fault that this stupid idea they fully supported failed.