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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Lol peeps touchy when it comes to kids eh?
Do whatever you want. But when you become a single parent, or can no longer afford to live in the city, don't go bitching about the price of RE or how you can't afford to live in a 3+ bed house. The decisions you've made put yourself in that position. "Love" don't fill dat investment portfolio.
Don't see how you can argue against being trapped in the rat race, as CiC may put it, if you've got a kid or large family though. From that point on you've got obligations to fill for the next 25 years. These aforementioned people who always take vacations etc with their kids must have excellent jobs to be able to strike such a balance.
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Not really at least from some ppl I know. One of my aunts takes vacation every summer to Japan, Korea, Thailand etc etc but only her husband works and her kid is studying at SFU. Her and her husband lives in HK in those affordable housing built by the gov (I think their rent is like $500 CAN if you convert it back). Not rich at all since they have no assets and always complain about money issue to my mom. We on the other hand haven't gone to family vacation in years and years. My parents basically never went ton trips at all, doesn't spend much or eat out but is sitting on a nice house and renting the basement unit.
Lot's of people just want to enjoy life now and worry about retirement later or better yet let the gov pay for their retirement. That's the worse a person can do, just look at how Greece turn out.