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American_PP t1_j6dhr0t wrote

My parents worked for 30+ years in nursing and all they did was bitch about work my entire childhood. When I became an adult, they kept encouraging me to become a nurse as if I wasn't already a pissed off at people young adult. I went into information technology. Sometimes I think I should have listened to them, I would have met way more women. IT is mostly dudes. It's a sausagefest.

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American_PP t1_j6demsf wrote

1 million can barely buy a house....1 million now is what 400k was a decade ago in that regard. You might be able to retire with 1 million, but only if you are older with Medicare, living in a cheap area of the country, 1 million might be enough....maybe.

Currently, a comfortable living and feeling wealthy would need at least 4 million in California. That would be enough of a buffer for living expenses and enough to do travelling here and there and maybe buy a few luxury items.

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EuropeanTrainMan t1_j6deagm wrote

You're hilariously wrong. It's just not being pressured into having them. Each generation had people living just above or below the poverty line and they were still having children out of pressure.

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