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Originally Posted by Locke
Right, but this speaks sort of to my point earlier.
You have a business, a home in some various state of finance, cars, you can pay your kids' educations.
Plunk 20-year-you into today's Canada? Thats a lot harder.
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Yeah, so true. At 47 - and in retrospect - just doing the typical expectations of you growing up (go to school, get a job, work moderately hard, buy a house) was life on easy mode. I feel a ton for young people. It's so much harder it's insane.
Also realizing how much parental help comes into play now even moreso than back then. I have fully funded education savings for my kids. Just did my first withdrawal last week for my daughter's first semester at MRU. Some of their friends have exactly $0 saved for them. So many of these people are starting at a huge disadvantage in an already difficult time. If I had to start over now I'd probably just jump off a bridge.