Oh, I do that. My best friend just happens to be my wife. It's the three short free loaders that really make things expensive!
I was better off, but this was an average government subsidized day care, a neighborhood Hoikuen (保育園). Everything else was just normal stuff. In fact, we didn't qualify for the few thousand from the city office because we were ex-pats. Medical is free for Japanese. So where are the costs?
My first two kids were born in Japan, and they were actually pretty cheap. The local city gives you some money (a few thousand) when your child is born, and day care was good and super cheap, like $10 per day because it was subsidized.
It really wasn't very expensive.
I actually bought a sex toy on Amazon a week ago and I was pissed that they asked for my driver's license to purchase it. WTF? What a screwed up country we live in.
If you put chocolate syrup on your ice cream it's not the ice cream you enjoy. If you put salt on your eggs, it's not the eggs you enjoy. If you put milk in your cereal, it's not the cereal you enjoy.
This logic doesn't hold up, and smacks of gatekeeping.
He didn't mismanage Twitter. He realized that he could spend 44B and gain control of the ruling political party of the US. He said "Twitter's value isn't in it's advertising, but in the public manipulation I can do with it!"
Why do you assume everyone on this site is exactly the same? Is it that hard to grasp that there's a spectrum of people who are at different stages in their lives with different amounts of money?
Also, how much do you think this cost? A bus billboard goes for what, $300-500 a month? Is it that crazy to imagine there are people here that don't have that much free money?
I just like to thank the universe that my parents aren't dumb enough to be Trump supporters.
Every time someone buys a Tesla, they're voting for this guy.
Sure, but sexuality is a spectrum, and if it's more expected I would think more people would experiment and move farther away from the norms.
How did they manage to make the family look soooo white? Even before I processed what the topic of this post my mind recognized how white that family looks. That and the nazi salute they were doing. So weird.
It certainly doesn't hurt!
I met my wife in college and we were both jobless (and poor) college students. I got married because I wanted to share my life with her, but sharing an apartment and bed was a financially beneficial arrangement!
We've done well on the financial situation however, so no complaining there. We both graduated with engineering degrees, so that's a pretty good start.