Les the Scientist
Striker
Buying a 3 bedroom house in 1999 even though it was just me buying it, was way too large, too expensive. 10 years later I'd made 100k on it and sold up to move into something much more pleasant.
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Maybe. But I wonder how many stick to it. Also thinking back to when I was young maybe I did hear it. But I thought more in youthful defiance?
Unless they decided not to have kids made a mistake and had a child, child is born and they hate it. They would say that it really was “the best decision we had made if only we had stuck to it”If they didn't stick to it, and willingly or otherwise had kids, then your decision not to have them wouldn't qualify as "The best decision you ever made".
Also, flip side of the coin, there must be many out there who didn't want kids, only to make a mistake and end up having them.
Telling my lazy wife I was going to divorce her. A bad decision in some ways because she went to Citizens Advice and they told her to get in first and divorce me, she did and I got stung.
No kids here, never wanted any, can't see the point of them except maybe to look after you when you get old.
It’s not for everyoneI can see how men may not be bothered but I don’t know how women can override their programming like that.
I’m surprised by the number of people who’ve said the no kids thing. I only know maybe 3 or 4 people out of my hundreds of acquaintances who’ve chosen that.
Moving to Benidorm.
Leaving Sunderland for London in 1990. It gave me more opportunities in the first 6 months than I had in Sunderland in the 2 yrs leading upto leaving.
It’s doesn’t count as a conscious choice until you’re over 40Hi Dave.
This lot are quoting 3 or 4 grand thoughHaha, not quite though i paid £1200 for my laser eye surgery, £200 deposit and £100p/m for 10 months. Was originally paying £35p/m for contact lenses.
All depends on how bad your eyes are really
Or how poor your math is
I grew up believing there was only one life path - school, college, uni, job, marriage, kids, happy suburban life in Sunderland - and any deviation from that was a life fail.I am the only one of my pals with that mindset. I’ll see them again regularly when their bairns are up but I guess that’s the point. I’ve no desire to make those kinds of sacrifices, it looks like very hard work.
It’s doesn’t count as a conscious choice until you’re over 40
This lot are quoting 3 or 4 grand though
I grew up believing there was only one life path - school, college, uni, job, marriage, kids, happy suburban life in Sunderland - and any deviation from that was a life fail.
It mostly worked out that way, although a failed marriage wasn’t part of the plan I grant you.
It probably why I have so much trouble accepting anyone making different choices to that.
Moving from a life in a city, to one working less hours and having less money but being on the coast. Time is more important than money, as long as you're not on the breadline
My grandad told me on my 16th birthday (the last one he was here for) and everyone I remember before that to do what I wanted to live a happy life. He had a hard go of things, as most men of his generation did, but 42 years down a pit no one would choose.
I think he understood that younger generations have a lot more freedom of choice now than he did then and wanted me to enjoy it as best I could.
The best advice I’ve ever been given in my opinion, miss him still now 16 years on.
Why did you wait 6 months? Tell me to fuck off if you want pal. How old were you and your missus.
That’s fair enough. I suppose if you know you know. I had a son at 16/17 so I never really thought about it.We went from kind of early dating with groups of friends and occasional one to one to more serious commitment I guess. I was only 20 and so was he. In hindsight it was a big decision but I've always known and so thought it was unfair not to say anything.
Going to Australia for a couple month, still here 2 years later and planning to do me apprentceship out here next year