Reply #60: my parents? [View All]

they live a 9 hour PLANE ride away. My in-laws? 11 hours in plane. Idem for our siblings. How did I get to not having savings? easy I NEVER HAD SAVINGS, NEVER, EVER, NEVER! My parents paid for my university, and my parents and my inlaws gave us the 10 percent down to buy or condo so that we would not throw money away on rent. I know we are not in the best situation but my wife is a civil servant here in France and will not be laid off EVER. I get shitty contract then am unemployed then find a shitty contract. At least here we have a social saftey net which gives people like us and poorer help. The state pays for most of our nanny fees so I can work and we get 172 euros per month for our kid, which easily goes for diapers, food, and the like for her. Our debt comes from our mortgage and our car payments (we need them to go to work as there is no train where I live in the countryside where my wife, the civil servant, has been stationed). Luckily we have no student loans to pay off like some of our friends. How many people have to live in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom condo where the kitchen and living room are the same room before you would call it communal? We have 3 already and lots of folks do it with 4. How many do we need?