Everyone knows how good cops are at de-escalating volatile situations, especially in Pittsburgh!

(my MIL owns a daycare small business)

The insurance $$$$, the pay for experienced staff so you can scale up a little, licensing of all sorts, not to mention plenty of food, diapers, toys, equipment, spaces, education content, you name it. There's of course a ton that goes into the full scope of managing a brick and mortar business, and the daycare is no exception. It's a whole operation, y'know?

There are home daycares too which seems fine to a relative outsider. That's what she did before; but scaling up to have like 10 skilled employees and a few different classes across an age range was key for growth.

Okay, I'm going off the thread here. Tako had excellent delicious tacos, maybe a little pricy but worth it

But their margaritas are out of a machine no actually mixed. So gross. I would expect that out of a $4 margarita well spot for undergrads, not a spot with a full bar and elevated street food

Apparently they ARE downtown though

Given the cost of childcare it's certainly an easy choice for many low income parents. It costs tens of thousands per kid per year - frequently more than these people even take home for that years work.

At the end of the day, you and I will pay for these kids, it's just a choice of upstream by subsidizing childcare, or downstream by subsidizing all the issues resulting from absent parents and inadequate support. It's literally cheaper to support daycare than not, similar to how preventative healthcare is cheaper than responsive healthcare.

Edit - and if you're expecting people to stop having kids, that's just completely unrealistic

> here's how you be a stay at home parent:

> Work all the time

Ooookay

You're gonna pay for those kids one way or another

Not even a bit

The abuse and lack of mental health care is what makes public schools shitty, not social media lol

I can believe the amount of mouth breather conservative haters here, but it's still disappointing. Good on you OP

It's not that they're charging a ton in an attempt to price gouge. It's really expensive to provide this care and difficult to retain trained staff

You want me to pay so you don't have to drive around potholes?

Did you miss the "one perk" part? It's not like your ass is paying out of pocket to provide supplies to other people's kids

"just world fallacy" at it's finest

That so deeply violates their world view. If they accept that good people have bad things happen to them, then they have to accept that they don't have control of their own life and that's scary af

I'm aware, it's very close

Someone in there commented about a woman being fired for her teeth, which were knocked out by her abusive husband. Jfc

I wonder if up the other side of Murray would make sense. Near the quest diagnostics etc

This is either an incredible troll or an incredible mistake and I'm not sure which makes me laugh more

Female doctors are more likely to take a female patient's concerns seriously

(you replied to the OP rather than the comment you're quoting)

I'm in squirrel hill now and it's been a very minor disruption to my life if any. That's not in any way justifying the atrocious and evil behaviors taking place.

Depending on your work and income some other similar neighborhoods are Shady side, point breeze, parts of east liberty (quickly becoming an attractive spot). All of these have $$$ as a caveat

Maybe both things can be true at the same time, that it's a poor choice of wording and that this destructive and unacceptable behavior must be addressed.

I can't imagine how much messier that intersection would be if there was a PRT stop right there, holy cow

Don't worry the consumers will vote with their wallet and the free market will discourage this sort of behavior. lol lmao