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I didn't bother with a license until my youngest was four and we were planning to move out of town. It was healthier for the kids and I to use our muscles to get around.

My childhood family didn't have a car. Only one of my eight aunts could drive.

My kids and grandkids all got licensed at 16 and their parents provided vehicle use.

Must be part of the reason for the rising cost of living - all these extras that people managed without years ago.
 
KayTheCurler said:
all these extras that people managed without years ago.
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Are you referring to drivers license or car? Though really, both of those had pretty much ceased to be extras by the eighties when I was growing up. Suburban sprawl over the baby boom era (fifties to seventies) pretty much made them necessities for anyone with a job outside the home. They may have been "extras" in the forties and maybe into the early fifties, I suppose.

My mother didn't have a license but she grew up in the thirties and forties when that was often the case for women of her class and she stopped working outside the home from before I was born until she became our church's secretary in the mid-eighties so didn't really need it.
 
Mendalla said:
Are you referring to drivers license or car? Though really, both of those had pretty much ceased to be extras by the eighties when I was growing up. Suburban sprawl over the baby boom era (fifties to seventies) pretty much made them necessities for anyone with a job outside the home. They may have been "extras" in the forties and maybe into the early fifties, I suppose.

My mother didn't have a license but she grew up in the thirties and forties when that was often the case for women of her class and she stopped working outside the home from before I was born until she became our church's secretary in the mid-eighties so didn't really need it.
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The role of centralization and that alternate attitude towards CIA! Thus the get out of town syndrome ...
 
Actually I was thinking about the extras many people choose to own - houses that are bigger than necessary, an array of electric gadgets to do things that can be done with hand tools, holidays to distant places, paying for entertainment - the list is endless.

In my previous post I neglected to say that three of my eight uncles could drive.
 
Co-op is here and Little M is now going through his first ever "real" job interviews. 2 so far, 1 more scheduled and still waiting on some. All in Ottawa's tech sector, so it is pretty much certain he's staying there for the summer.
 
Wow, great place to go visit in the summer.
Does he have a spare room that you can stay with him, or does he stay in residence. (Note: some residences rent rooms during the summer to tourists)

Good luck to him. It is a great opportunity to learn how to interview, recognize that you are as much a buyer as you are a seller. Set the stage. I used to love interviewing for co-ops.
 
Pinga said:
Does he have a spare room that you can stay with him, or does he stay in residence.
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He's on a one year lease (ie. full year instead of school year) in an upper year apartment-style residence that he shares with two buddies so will likely live there. No spare room. We have a couple favorite hotels (Comfort Inns) and at least one AirBnB we like so we're not hurting for places to crash when we go.

paradox3 said:
@Mendalla I think you were expecting he might not come home for the summer, am I right?
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Yup. We are kind of figuring he might not get back to London again until next Christmas unless there's a sufficiently long break between the end of semester and the start of his co-op. And even if there is, we might go there, pick him up, and do a quick vacation of some kind.
 
Pinga said:
Good luck to him. It is a great opportunity to learn how to interview, recognize that you are as much a buyer as you are a seller. Set the stage. I used to love interviewing for co-ops.
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Yeah, I've been giving him pointers as someone who's now usually on the other side of the table (I've had three hires in the last four years) and my HR Director gave us a slide deck she uses to do seminars on applying and interviewing for respiratory therapy students. He's really only had one proper job interview before but that was for maintenance on a golf course, not high tech.
 
Mendalla said:
Yup. We are kind of figuring he might not get back to London again until next Christmas unless there's a sufficiently long break between the end of semester and the start of his co-op. And even if there is, we might go there, pick him up, and do a quick vacation of some kind.
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That's good. It can be hard when these things come as a surprise.
 
I love those co-op programmes - those who participate gain so many skills - and sometimes an offer of employment! Sending positive thoughts to the little ape for the interviews. Is he nervous about these?
 
So, Little M did get a co-op job for the summer. He'll be doing programming for a tech company in Kanata so, as expected, he'll be staying in Ottawa for the summer. We're going up a couple times this spring, for his birthday and then again a few weeks later to squeeze a short family vacation between his last exam and his first day of work. After that, maybe Labour Day weekend if he has to move (he and his roommate are still debating whether to keep the current place on-campus or find a new one off-campus).
 
Pinga said:
How is that @Mendalla .
We so appreciated oldestson coming home. Miss them, and it was kind of a nice return, short though it was.
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We're managing. I think Mrs. M wishes he was closer but I find it less stressful. If he was home, we might still be having homework battles and such with him. And he's matured quite a bit living so far away, and that's a good thing. It would be nice to have him home again as we did for a month last summer but co-op is fairly key to success in his field, per Liwen's North American cousins who are both in it, so we are prepared to deal with it. Right now, we know we'll be up to see him at least three times between now and September and then we'll hopefully have him home for Christmas/New Year's break. 2020 he'll have two work terms (Winter and Fall, with Summer in school) so that will change things again.
 
Congrats to little M on getting that co-op job! Changes for sure when they move away - but as you said there are bonus aspects too. And it give you a destination to get away a little more often - and you can drive there - no need for planes or trains, automobiles will do :-)
 
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