Comment on Sadly giving up on early retirement and going back to workComments−s09dfhks3ySounds like the bigger listen here is if you want to fire, don’t have kids−toomuchtodo3yPer Brookings, it costs $310k to raise 1 kid 0-18. That doesn’t include college, daycare, and opportunity costs.If you want to FIRE, don’t have kids. I have kids, they’re expensive.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991744−Giorgi3yespecially two
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Sounds like the bigger listen here is if you want to fire, don’t have kids
Per Brookings, it costs $310k to raise 1 kid 0-18. That doesn’t include college, daycare, and opportunity costs.
If you want to FIRE, don’t have kids. I have kids, they’re expensive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991744
especially two