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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mid-life crisis, could be anywhere
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Great stuff, but....
My grandparents idea of an annual vacation was 6 days on the road sleeping in the back of the station wagon.
My grandparents did not take vacations to Hawaii, Paris or Rome.
My grandparents retired to their kid's lazy-boy in the corner or a mobile home (not mine personally, but many during this generation)
My grandparents life expectancy was 10 years less than mine.
My grandparents breadth of knowledge of this world was maybe 1/4 what mine is.
My grandparents had tough lives and tough times dealing with the pain of getting older.
My point is that even with all the negatives of growing up today, we have an incredible quality of life that our grandparents could only dream of. I suspect/hope that our kids will be even more worldly, healthy and comfortable than us!
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