sure glad fucktarded inconsistent cumskins repetitively complain about their high cost of living, shitmod trillions of cost of living threads, and claim NYUUG is poor because ONLY ABSOLUTE INCOMES MATTER despite NYUUG literally never having made even a SINGLE thread complaining about the cost of living in korea whilst said cumskins have literally made TRILLIONS of threads whining about the high cost of living in the anglosphere
Date: December 18th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: Drab spot
We have saved $194,000 for college. I have 4 kids. College starts in September 2033 and runs through 2045. The present day liability is like $1.4 million. I feel woefully behind.
Date: December 18th, 2025 7:36 PM Author: Drab spot
No, I just can’t keep up with the costs of life. It’s crippling. I have lower standard of living, live in less desirable housing, cannot catch up for the life of me compared to my parents. It’s sick and it’s sad because they see me as having a much more elite career, but the truth is dark and it’s sad.
Date: December 18th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: Outnumbered step-uncle's house
I would not be disappointed if one of my kids came to me and was like, “Dad, I want to learn a trade and put the near million dollars from an undergrad and professional degree toward building a business”
Date: December 19th, 2025 11:59 AM Author: floppy slate ticket booth old irish cottage
98% of 20 year olds (and 90% of 30 year olds) would squander said million. He'd be way better off taking $15k to try and start a business and leaving the rest invested.
Date: December 19th, 2025 12:14 PM Author: Outnumbered step-uncle's house
Oh, God, no you wouldn't give a 19 yo a million dollars. You're absolutely right.
I meant you'd help them find their first job and acquire some tools. When they're ready, you help them get a work van and more tools, set up their website and basic accounting and payroll, to start their own business. Once they're good at both the trade and the business side, maybe you help look for acquisition or expansion opportunities. Help them own their own shop and fleet.so that they can control overhead and weather any lean times. And, that way when they're 55 and their knees have gone and you've got a foot in the grave, they're basically on cruise control as an owner and not a doer.
Date: December 19th, 2025 3:16 PM Author: Outnumbered step-uncle's house
The circle of life is absurd. From the fields and the mills to the trades to finance and back down the scale in four generations. Maybe my grandkids will have some acreage going in time for my great-grandkids to survive the apocalypse
Date: December 19th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: Electric Brethren
It really is fucked up. Like something has to give. Cost of a private 4 year university could legitimately be $1 million 20 years from now, the way tuition goes up every year. There’s no way UMC folks like most of us will be able to afford that with our shitty wage increases not even matching inflation.
Date: December 19th, 2025 6:23 PM Author: Blathering point
Everyone should be directing their children to their local state public flagship school. The whole notion of sending kids across the country to out of state public unis, private LACs, and no-name schools never made any sense and it certainly doesn't at the absurd price points they demand now.