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In the UK, that's pretty damn good money. If you are able to plan financially at all you can comfortably pay off a mortgage and live off that amount of money for the 12 years.

Makes sense that there would be some nerves involved then. Even if you're not feeling them consciously. I'm sure there's a risk to dating someone you've built such a good friendship with.

Good on you for going for it!

Nice. I imagine you have been looking forward to dating a lot?

You've known each other for 3 years? Wow that's cool! How long did you know you liked her?

It's like the US and Russia's new competition is who can be more authoritarian.

This is then hard on the hetero couples who want a child but can't make one. But then again I suppose they have the adoption route open to them also.

Thank you for taking the time to write this out so eloquently.

Can you counter point it rather than just saying 'not thinking'? From these comments you're coming off as the not thinking one.

It makes sense that Ukraine would cosy up to USA if USA has something Ukraine needs, no?

To be fair, they said 'a more enlightened time', like how my face can be more handsome without me actually being handsome. :|

It's not like someone can just pop out 100 children to skew votes

On an individual basis sure, but this still poses two problems:

1. Is there a group of people that typically vote a certain who are prone to having more children than other groups. Due to different cultures, this is likely true.
2. Why should parents of children get an extra vote over those who can't have children? Personally I feel that having had children should bear no influence on the power of your voice.

Hmm, I'd be wary to parents taking advantage of this.

I mean, the first picture alone looks pretty naff.