Something that surprised me is my niece, who has kids and is a teacher
so sees a lot of kids, says that they are maturing more slowly today
than in the past.

With so much online stuff available I'd have thought the opposite
but she insists it's true. That came up when I mentioned I was

I wonder if that is all kids, or just male kids? As you mention online,
as best as I can tell from nieces and nephews, it is more the nieces that
are interested in that world as tweens/teens. The nephews, and their
friends, not as much.

Mike
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Something that surprised me is my niece, who has kids and is a teacher

>> so sees a lot of kids, says that they are maturing more slowly today
>> than in the past.

I wonder if that is all kids, or just male kids? As you mention online,

>as best as I can tell from nieces and nephews, it is more the nieces that
>are interested in that world as tweens/teens. The nephews, and their
>friends, not as much.

I know my 11 year old nephew seems a lot more interested in playing
online games on his Tablet than thinking about girls.

I guess I didn't have a Tablet to distract me at that age but I was
certainly starting to think about girls.

They have always said that girls mature faster than boys, one of the
reasons they are usually looking for older boys while in their
early teens. Maybe I wasn't quite typical as I recall being quite
a bit more popular with the girls when I was 12 to 14 than most of
the rest of the guys. I sort of thought that was mainly because
at 12 years old I was already 5'10" so I was taller than most of
the other guys, many still shorter than most of the girls.

Of course, by 14 I had long hair (unusual at the time) and was
wearing Harley T-Shirts and saving up to buy my first motorcycle
so I may have seemed a little more 'macho' than typical as well..

The girls do like a 'bad boy'... B)

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They have always said that girls mature faster than boys, one of the
reasons they are usually looking for older boys while in their
early teens. Maybe I wasn't quite typical as I recall being quite
a bit more popular with the girls when I was 12 to 14 than most of
the rest of the guys. I sort of thought that was mainly because
at 12 years old I was already 5'10" so I was taller than most of
the other guys, many still shorter than most of the girls.

My recollection of that age, 12-14, was that I was more interested in
girls than a lot of my male classmates. I was also about as tall as I am
now and taller than most kids in class. Unfortunately, that did not
improve my popularity one bit!

Looking back I wish I had been more like my nephew and not got interested
in them until I was much older. I wasted a lot of time that could have
been spent on other, much more worthwhile things.

As I got older, one can add "...and money" to the list of things wasted.
;D

Mike
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MIKE POWELL wrote to ROB MCCART <=-

As I got older, one can add "...and money" to the list of things
wasted.
;D

Women are indeed expensive. I learned this after two marriages the hard
way...

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a bit more popular with the girls when I was 12 to 14 than most of

>> the rest of the guys. I sort of thought that was mainly because
>> at 12 years old I was already 5'10" so I was taller than most of
>> the other guys, many still shorter than most of the girls.

My recollection of that age, 12-14, was that I was more interested in

>girls than a lot of my male classmates. I was also about as tall as I am
>now and taller than most kids in class. Unfortunately, that did not
>improve my popularity one bit!

It helps to be good looking too.. Believe me, I know.. B)

Actually, since I was a serious hockey player at the time, I
attracted a few girls when the school took us ice skating the
odd time in winter because I was able to skate backwards and
'spin' (dance) on ice to the music with them.. B)

Looking back I wish I had been more like my nephew and not got interested

>in them until I was much older. I wasted a lot of time that could have
>been spent on other, much more worthwhile things.

I lived out in the country so, until old enough to drive, it was
pretty difficult to spend much time with others outside of school.
Just the odd party on a weekend or something..

I remember my closest friend was about 1.5 miles away and I'd
bike there frequently. Another friend lived almost 5 miles
away and I recall at times riding to his place in the morning,
then back home for lunch, and then back to his place later.

Plus my parents were pretty cheap on allowances so I didn't have
much to spend until I was able to drive to a job at 16.
And then the job took up most of the dating time.. Can't win..

As I got older, one can add "...and money" to the list of things wasted.

> ;D

Tell me about it.. B(

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As I got older, one can add "...and money" to the list of things
wasted. ;D

Women are indeed expensive. I learned this after two marriages the hard

>way...

You don't have to be married to them.. Live-in is usually bad enough.. B)
I had one of each..

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If YT and other services are to be believed, there are several women
out there who are into canning veggies and other homesteading activities. I suspect that all of them are also married already, though. ;)

There's many women out there but depends on where you live as to the quantity

I'd not expect to find any into homesteading in Chicago or NYC, that is
for sure. ;)

Mike
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MIKE POWELL wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

I'd not expect to find any into homesteading in Chicago or NYC, that is for sure. ;)

You might find women who are tired of their current city life and would like to
try it but that requires a mindset that few city folk have...unless you move
to Green Acres...

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I don t think my house is sellable. It is like a Roman Villa at this point. I often see big rural properties for sale in classified ads but they don t sell because they are not cheap and there is not many people in the need for those.
You might be sitting on a ton of money on paper but you would not be able to cash it out unless you sold it at a pityful price. The fact property here gets
taxed to death does not help because people knows a fancy house on fancy lands
costs a ton in government protection money.

Here places like that sell so that they can subdivide them into a expensive subdivision or, depending where they are, maybe an industrial estate.

Mike

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Re: Re: Too Scared To Date
By: MIKE POWELL to ARELOR on Tue Feb 24 2026 09:49 am

Here places like that sell so that they can subdivide them into a expensive subdivision or, depending where they are, maybe an industrial estate.

I am aware these things typically get broken into manageable pieces, but doing this is a bit complicated in this case.

The previous owner bribed the town hall into classifying the whole place as "Urban", which gives us rights to build and develop and to get utilities such as water and electricity.

If we broke the property into smaller pieces chances are they would reclassify most of it as farm grounds which loses the owner lots of rights and hits the valuation very badly.


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