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My sister just moved to Cary earlier this year and I’ve visited her 3 times already and I really like the area to the point where I have begun to consider moving there sometime down the line. It’s interesting reading your take from New Jersey where I’ve been looking to buy a house or condo for a while now and everything is too expensive for me, and then I look down at places in the Raleigh area and see a lot that I could probably afford. The rent my sister is paying for her 3 BR house in Cary seems really cheap to me compared to what a place like that would cost to rent up here lol but I know there’s other factors that’ll play into that like the job salaries i’m sure will be lower there

 

youre always welcome in Delaware, the best state in the union

 

The wildest ones of these to me is when they find out that somehow the babies got swapped in the hospital and a kid was raised by the wrong family. The story of the Jewish family going home with an Italian kid and vice versa and the families wondering why the kids did not look like the rest of the family blows my mind.

Though this one might top those.

 

Seems relevant to the convo yesterday lol

 

that one is almost wholesome compared to the one I posted haha. I would not be surprised if those kids needed plenty of therapy but at least theyre not going to jail

 

Yeah I think the ranking would go:

Family Crime/Murder
Dad/Mom Cheated, finding out your one of your parents is not your parent. Think you could also include finding you have more siblings.
Baby Swap Hospital

Though maybe the Baby Swap goes above the cheating/secret sibilings one? Feel like that might be even.

 

Idunno I just feel like baby swap is presumably accidental so inherently less bad. but maybe i'm desensitized to the topic because I have a friend who was a nurse working in birth and neonatal care who would joke about swapping babies. no offense to anyone

 

My MIL found out she has a half sister from one of those DNA tests. That was a bit of a shock.

 

That's a fair point, looking at from accidental versus not. I think I am more thinking of what I think the impact would be on the person finding out.

 

my mom and aunt are super into the ancestry.com and tracing our lineage and i've told them to stop asking family to submit their dna because of stuff like that. we also have our own story from it lol.

they found out their mom was conceived outside of marriage and we're all only half aunts/uncles/cousins with her side of the family lol. My great grandma cheated on her husband when he was fighting in WW2 in Germany. Which, actually works out for us because Alzheimer's runs in his side of the family and now we don't have to worry about it. now they're trying to connect with their half siblings and it's a whole thing

 

I’ve been desperate to do one of those things for years but never got around to it and then starting reading all the shit they do with your dna so I never did it. I think NatGeo does one that I hope is a little less shady with your dna but I haven’t looked deep enough it it to do it yet

 

I have Mormon relatives and the church basically makes you do that ancestry shit so my cousins have gotten super into it. It sucks I hate it

 

My mom did a DNA test on her pug and then started reaching out to her pug’s DNA matches. You know, normal stuff.

 

good way for your pug to get arrested for a cold case smh

 

hope they become permanent submarines

 

the threat of China existing is very realz