Originally Posted by rickair7777

Didn't say you should, just if you do you'll probably like it.

Originally Posted by Bahamasflyer

Absolutely. It's about time someone says this straight up. Kids are NOT for everyone, just like college isn't either.

The high 5 and low 6 figure $$$ numbers that are being thrown around here are still less than the total cost of kids. I'm a late Gen Xer/early millennial, and I NEVER want kids and never have. The COVID-19 crisis has only proven what a good decision it was to remain childless.

Hell.....I worry enough about feeding myself in these troubling times. Why on Gods Green Earth do I want to have to worry about feeding someone else. Not to mention during my days off (pre-COVID at least) I put my travel benefits to use and visited Europe, Mexico, and many other places and had a blast. Never could have done that with kids, at least not nearly as hassle free.

And I haven't even mentioned the opportunity cost gain such as being able to move to base on a whim at your regional, move again to take the first available upgrade, move again to the junior base when moving onto a LCC or legacy, etc, rinse and repeat, as well not caring about good schools (2X for same home, 10 miles away).

Just to be clear, I'm not knocking others decisions to have kids. Instead, I'm just putting forth that simply having kids should not be the default thing, because if parenting is not totally in you blood and something you are passionate about, then that child will sense that and its terrible unfair to him/her.

I actually love kids. As long as I can return them to their parents at the end of the day.

Originally Posted by brocklee9000

My parents said the same thing about vegetables.

Originally Posted by BigRedFlyer

I’m in this post and I *like* it. Xennial here and I feel the exact same way. Thankfully so does my wife! 😅

Originally Posted by brocklee9000

I know a lot of people say that, but I’m good. I know it’s not a popular opinion.

Originally Posted by Turbosina

Right there with ya! Saw a great bumper sticker the other day. "More dogs, less people."

Originally Posted by ZeroTT

The airlines have to deal with two things

1) pandemic pre-vaccine
2) economy post vaccine

#1 is clearly a disaster and the longer peoples heads get held underwater, the more carriers will fold.

#2 isn’t necessarily a lost decade. People guess, but nobody really knows how that’s gonna play out

Originally Posted by dhc8guru

On the news this morning they were saying 40 million (rental) housing are now facing evictions. They didn"t mention how many people are going to lose there homes due to foreclosure.
Its estimated 420k people have left NYC in the past two months.

Originally Posted by rickair7777

That's might be good for airlines in the short-term, with congress split. The house will want to do something about that, the senate will want to save business/economic infrastructure so they'll probably have to make a deal (which will have a bone for labor).

Although if the election switches control of both the senate and white house we might be looking at green new deal... let the airlines fold since they want to get rid of them anyway. The good news there is you'll get $600/week UBI for life. The bad news is that you'll get $600/week UBI for life.

Originally Posted by Cyio

The GND thing is all smoke and mirrors to everyone but a radical few. You cant just get rid of air travel in the US. We are not built for it.