They generally each get a new set of pajamas, a new set of gloves, and a new stylish sweatshirt or jacket every year. Sometimes those are from an aunt or grandparent, but usually from us.
Most of the rest of their Christmas presents from us are via the gift economy.
Toys, electronics, games, and media generally come from the grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
Probably not. The land to either side of roads is typically owned by the road-owning entity already, in case they need to make improvements.
Even in my urban environment, the city owns the verge, the sidewalk, and something like eight inches past the sidewalk, six inches past everyone's front fence.
Seconding this. In most situations, the only thing you can change is yourself. If you want to improve things, you've got to do the work. Sometimes people think responsibility is the same thing as fault or blame, but, again, most of the time the person able to fix a bad situation won't be the one who caused it.
I dont' use social media so I'm pretty ignorant of it all.
She says on social media.
Seriously, though, you got half of it already: Social media addiction.
The other half is reluctance to be social media content. Relationships and intimacy require vulnerability and opening the dark cave of your heart puts you at risk for the contents thereof to become a story someone else tells online.
I miss the night sky. Chicago has too much light pollution to see the stars.
I miss eating frybread.
I miss the arid climate, the open sky, and even the wild weather of South Dakota.
And I miss the tight-knit concert scene of Sioux Falls, where a core group of people went to every. single. show. no matter the genre or location or age because it was all we had. Years later touring bands who came up Chicago would still recognize me as "that headbanging guy" even after I cut my hair.
It's normalized for people to form rings of personal assistance, where the one person who's good at making appointments does it for everyone and the other person who actually likes filing taxes (me!) does that for everyone and the person who has a system for sending in warranty cards and rebate forms does that for everyone in the group.
Seriously, why aren't we doing this already, I'm ready to live in a commune.
It was the closest one to my house on my then-current insurance. I got lucky, and love them so much that I now make sure any insurance plan I consider includes that location.
Only original, tropical, and blue razz.