My parents worked incredibly hard to provide a good life to my siblings and I, my dad worked 80 or 90 hour weeks for 10-15 years of his life when he finished University. There's no question that he has the money to buy me a nice car and put me through school and throw the down payment on a house my way, but if I ever asked for any of that he would laugh me out of the room.
I think there's something to be said for doing it on your own with minimal help. I'll graduate university with $20,000 in student loans and nothing to my name except a 10 year old car. My dad could probably pay that off for me with one paycheque, but he wouldn't, because what kind of message does that send?
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