After reading this thread, I agree w/the majority of y'all.
I'm a single dad of a 9 year old boy (son's mom passed away), so it's 100% him and I. I have my own business that is physical and cannot function on working from home. How does this work for me? Where's O-bam-a when we need him? I wanna get my phone, get some food, and get a check for sitting at home. I'd say $8000 a month tax free will work.
In addition:
I am now a "teacher" but not getting paid for it.
I now need to figure out where I can "work" in the field and still educate my son. Does this mean I need to come up with some elaborate work station out of my truck or enclosed trailer. Figure out some hotspot for internet, make sure the AC works (because it will get hot out there for a kid), be available to come check on him periodically. Be available to answer questions or "what does this mean dad". And keep him focused and safe while he is literally not next to me.
I'd love for the liberals to tell me how this works.......!
And the online learning is a JOKE for elementary (at least here). It was an utterly unorganized cluster. Some kids (this was third grade) sounded like little babies. They did the baby talk crap that my son grew out of by 5 years old. Keep in mind, these are 3rd graders (8-9 years old). What the heck. Others had their siblings making so much noise I actually had to leave the room or I was going to lose it and yell into the mic !
Teachers would literally throw together some nonsense. Links wouldn't work, online IT tech issues. Then the reply was, everyone can't be online at the same time b/c the infrastructure wasn't up to par. WHAT??!! Not up to par?? Oh, I forgot, these sites were created by govt IT deadbeats that couldn't make it in the real world, so they had to get a gov't job. OOPS. Oh, before I forget, literally, there were 5-6 steps you would have to click here, click there, and re click, just to submit your "work". There wasn't any, SUBMIT button. You would have to exit your work, click on several other links/buttons/etc to submit a kids "work". No bs here. I'm dead serious. WHO CREATED THESE PAGES? My gosh, it is the most UNUSER FRIENDLY thing i've ever seen. I can go on and on about that.
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So if I can't work, because i'm now a teacher that does not get paid, why on earth am I in one of the highest rated school systems (oh, i pay a good amount of property taxes and high real estate costs).
I like the idea someone said (which I have been pondering since March) of moving into rural GA, acreage, and fairly self sufficient lifestyle.
Here's what I have found after months of research:
1. N GA mountains: Prices have SKYROCKETED. Doesn't even make sense. I believe the yanks ruined this by driving up prices, coming from NY/NJ and such, selling their crack shack for $600k and driving price UP. Anything with 5+ acreage and a decent house is $400k and up. How does that even make sense. Maybe
2. Middle GA: While prices seem to remain low, the demographics have me rethinking.
3. So GA: Just too far away. Hot as heck. At that point, I'd move to our FL beach shack and get a year round tan. Not ideal..........but either is this covid19 situation.
End rant.
I'm a single dad of a 9 year old boy (son's mom passed away), so it's 100% him and I. I have my own business that is physical and cannot function on working from home. How does this work for me? Where's O-bam-a when we need him? I wanna get my phone, get some food, and get a check for sitting at home. I'd say $8000 a month tax free will work.
In addition:
I am now a "teacher" but not getting paid for it.
I now need to figure out where I can "work" in the field and still educate my son. Does this mean I need to come up with some elaborate work station out of my truck or enclosed trailer. Figure out some hotspot for internet, make sure the AC works (because it will get hot out there for a kid), be available to come check on him periodically. Be available to answer questions or "what does this mean dad". And keep him focused and safe while he is literally not next to me.
I'd love for the liberals to tell me how this works.......!
And the online learning is a JOKE for elementary (at least here). It was an utterly unorganized cluster. Some kids (this was third grade) sounded like little babies. They did the baby talk crap that my son grew out of by 5 years old. Keep in mind, these are 3rd graders (8-9 years old). What the heck. Others had their siblings making so much noise I actually had to leave the room or I was going to lose it and yell into the mic !
Teachers would literally throw together some nonsense. Links wouldn't work, online IT tech issues. Then the reply was, everyone can't be online at the same time b/c the infrastructure wasn't up to par. WHAT??!! Not up to par?? Oh, I forgot, these sites were created by govt IT deadbeats that couldn't make it in the real world, so they had to get a gov't job. OOPS. Oh, before I forget, literally, there were 5-6 steps you would have to click here, click there, and re click, just to submit your "work". There wasn't any, SUBMIT button. You would have to exit your work, click on several other links/buttons/etc to submit a kids "work". No bs here. I'm dead serious. WHO CREATED THESE PAGES? My gosh, it is the most UNUSER FRIENDLY thing i've ever seen. I can go on and on about that.
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So if I can't work, because i'm now a teacher that does not get paid, why on earth am I in one of the highest rated school systems (oh, i pay a good amount of property taxes and high real estate costs).
I like the idea someone said (which I have been pondering since March) of moving into rural GA, acreage, and fairly self sufficient lifestyle.
Here's what I have found after months of research:
1. N GA mountains: Prices have SKYROCKETED. Doesn't even make sense. I believe the yanks ruined this by driving up prices, coming from NY/NJ and such, selling their crack shack for $600k and driving price UP. Anything with 5+ acreage and a decent house is $400k and up. How does that even make sense. Maybe
2. Middle GA: While prices seem to remain low, the demographics have me rethinking.
3. So GA: Just too far away. Hot as heck. At that point, I'd move to our FL beach shack and get a year round tan. Not ideal..........but either is this covid19 situation.
End rant.
My son's senior year is going to be awesome. 
