• intelisense@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    A more serious answer: we left for Berlin. The trouble is that rent has gone sky high in Berlin, too! I’m not sure what the answer is. Sell as much as you can so you can downsize if you need to move?

  • tetris11@feddit.uk
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    24 hours ago

    Stressful. I take solace in the knowledge that I don’t live too far away from family, and that I could always go live with my mother for the rest of my life, and barring that, I could go harass a sibling for a bit.

    I want to check out for a bit, fall asleep, come back, and somehow it will be the early 2000s again

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    Honestly one of the big reasons we decided to not have kids. With some budgeting we have a good quality of life as we both earn a good wage. Though we still have to be careful. Adding kids to that mix would mean we would struggle at times and have to cut back on the niceties to keep food and bills paid.

    It is a depressing reality of our capitalist society.

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        20 hours ago

        Honestly other than a little pang when interacting with my nephew’s of am I missing out, it’s mostly positive.

        We have time and money to do more of the things we enjoy, not that there’s much of that even without kids when you factor in 2 full time jobs.

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    I’m just sick of it, prices seem to jump every time I go the shops. I’m lucky I earn a good wage but even I’ve had to cut back. It’s depressing and feels neverending

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    1 day ago

    I tried popping it, but that didn’t work. I’m going to the doctor to get it treated this week. I’ll let you know how it goes.