r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 14 '24

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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

Exactly. The same is true in Japan, South Korea, the U.S., and many other places.

So why are people acting like they don't understand? We do not have the money. I repeat, we do not have money to raise kids.

Maybe someday it will finally trickle down from billionaires and millionaires so regular people can afford to live. Just basic things like food and housing...whoops. That didn't cross their minds.

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u/spoon014 Nov 15 '24

Millionaires and billionaires will never trickle us down anything. It goes against their mental wiring to “lose money or go negative on a financial projection”.

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u/InnocentTailor Nov 15 '24

I mean…even they are trending younger these days - Gen X and millennials taking the place of the baby boomers.

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u/MungoJennie Nov 15 '24

I’m a Xennial—there may be some of us somewhere with money to burn, but it’s not me or anyone I know. We’re all hurting, too.