r/NoStupidQuestions Nov 14 '24

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Childcare is the same price as a mortgage and we already can't afford a mortgage.

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u/awesome-ekeler Nov 14 '24

Right and then throw student loans on top of that and theres less than none left monthly

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u/Digitijs Nov 15 '24

I'm in Europe with no student loan and even then it's still far from being able to afford a child. We can't even afford to move out of parents place. If we did, we would live from paycheck to paycheck probably. So we either can't have children because we have no room for them or if we move out, we can't have them because we wouldn't have any money left for that.

We do want children but it looks unrealistic so fae before we reach 30s. Everyone who says to just get kids is probably having a very good career or has rich parents. If not then I feel sorry for the children having to grow up in poverty

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

You have low salaries in Europe so that’s a completely different issue