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LokiLunatic@reddit

Story of my life. lol My parents always rented (still do), but why would I care about that? I moved schools (hated having to leave my friends at first), but what broke me was moving back senior year after I just started having an even better life at the new school. The schools I went to in particular had VERY different vibes, so it was hard not to get social whiplash. Even the friends I came back to changed and I had to start over some months into my final year. It's not impossble to get through, but a huge pain in the ass to say the least if you want to get your roots in the ground and work on meaningful relationships.
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rwzephyr@reddit

Same, single mother who hopped from man to man every 6mo. New city, new school. My first full year at the same school was 8th grade when she dumped me at my fathers to move with my sister with a new man and didn’t have room for me. Killed me as a kid, but as an adult it was the best thing she ever did for me.
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IFuckSlow@reddit

She never loved you, anyway. You were a mistake from a night after her divorce, she got a nut dumped in her and every time she looked at you it was a painful reminder. That's why it was so easy for her to dump you.
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creamilk_now@reddit

Fuck that’s awful to read, anyways glad he figured it out
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Lower_Hat@reddit

Yes, it would be better if you didn’t exist,
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deranged_moron@reddit

Such is the life of an army brat
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chiefoogabooga@reddit

It really depends on where your family is stationed. It's a lot easier to be the new kid when half the kids there are new kids than it is to go into a school where 90% of the kids have known each other since kindergarten. You also have the shared experiences of being a military brat and your parents working at the same base to lean into. There is a shared comraderie amongst military kids whether they realize it or not. I'm not saying they all like each other, but there is definitely an us against them mentality when things get rough.
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Daryl_On_FFXIV@reddit

I get what you’re saying, but a lot of the military brats I went to school with were weirdos. I was just normal enough to have a decent social standing despite moving every 1-4 years since I was born and I can echo the sentiment of the responder in the post. I wish I had the lasting relationships my friends did and it was gut wrenching every time I had to leave the people I spent years getting to know. The best thing it taught me was how to fit in anywhere and adapt, but at what cost? Now I’m almost 30, chewed up and spit out by the military both as a child and an adult and I’m shitposting on this app. Life is good now that I’m free from it all and can sew my roots wherever I please. I just want my future kids to have what I didn’t.
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magusx17@reddit

Anon2 is being a big pussywillow. I moved 11 times before I turned 15. Some schools were fun, some were bad, some were gay. I had a chance to reinvent myself every time
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KingofTheTorrentine@reddit

how did that work? were your parents divorced?
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magusx17@reddit

Military tours are typically 1-3 years. When my father had orders for a new base, the whole family moved
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SunderedValley@reddit

That's shockingly mature advice.
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nabbersauce@reddit

Whoops, I'm about a decade behind
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spiritofporn@reddit

How the hell do you afford a retirement home if you don't have a house to sell or rent out?
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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

Invest in things that aren't houses. Sure, house prices go up over time, but so do stock prices.
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spiritofporn@reddit

And stock prices can plummet.
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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

Have you heard of 2008? The same thing can happen to houses. Long term they both go up, though
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spiritofporn@reddit

But houses don't disappear into thin air when the market crashes.
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lookslikeyoureSOL@reddit

Stocks don't just "disappear" into thin air during a crash. That only happens if you panic and sell everything (like everyone else is doing, hence the crash). If you hold something like the S&P500 all the way through a crash, eventually it will recover and continue moving upwards. Sometimes that just takes years.
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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

And my stocks don't disappear when they catch on fire or get blown away by a hurricane.
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spiritofporn@reddit

Does insurance cover them too?
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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

Ask all those people in California how much insurance helps
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Zestyclose_Zone_9253@reddit

don't live in hot arid places?
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spiritofporn@reddit

Move to a better country?
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nhtj@reddit

Hedging is insurance for stocks.
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Gaitville@reddit

My grandmother when she was in her 80s gave away pretty much any asset she owned to her kids. On paper she had nothing and owned nothing. She lived to be 97 and was able to live with my aunt (her daughter) until 94. At 94 she had to move to a full time care home. The state paid the whole bill lmao.
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clayticus@reddit

My dad was in the army and we moved around a lot even to different countries. His son will be alright. Yes, it's not easy but you don't get attached to anything either. I would say it's a positive to move around 
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StopCallinMePastries@reddit

It's a lot different when you have the most well funded support system on the planet and a mom who probably doesn't work either.
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clayticus@reddit

That's true. We didn't pay rent or mortgage living in the military base. No health insurance costs either. 
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StopCallinMePastries@reddit

Also helps when all the other kids find your lifestyle completely normal as opposed to being "that new weird kid who isn't going to die in the small town he was born in" yanno?
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nycapartmentnoob@reddit

I can't be the only one who actually enjoyed the experience of going to many different schools - if there was one thing that made me less of an autist, that was probably it, it sure as fuck wasn't playing video games all the time
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nhtj@reddit

Yeah I changed more than 10 schools during my K-12 education and while it sucked to lose my friends every time it made me very flexible and adaptable in new environments despite being an introvert.
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StopCallinMePastries@reddit

It will change you into a different kind of person who can withstand it you will just never be a normal person.
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StopCallinMePastries@reddit

Imagine having your whole life fucked up for your dad's career and you still have to pay for your own college.
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trainsssssssss@reddit

> Hmm, rent or mortgage, what a tough choice! Must be hard being this retarded
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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit

Mortgage is cheaper than rent, but there is a large upfront cost.
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KingofTheTorrentine@reddit

Renting isn't supposed to be more expensive, but in high turnover high paying jobs that's what ends up happening.
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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

The downside to a mortgage is the cost of moving. It's a good decision if and only if you plan to stay in one spot for a long time
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ledditmodsaresad@reddit

Plus now the kids don't get shit when the parents die I very highly doubt they will inherit the equivalent of a house.
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the107@reddit

Depends entirely where you are with your career and what your advancement options are. Renting can give you flexibility to relocate and advance your career/salary more rapidly.
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KingofTheTorrentine@reddit

From what I've seen, and what I've encountered. Most kids will choose love over money, and they won't hold being poor against you unless you raised a narcissist or actively contributed to their misery. If you struggled but did it for them they'll hold you up. This is why you see a lot of pro athletes shower their mother with houses and gifts, while they tell their dad to F off. When you force your kid to endure pain for your benefit, like you hold it against them that they're the reason you're poor, or they owe you, or even worse you drag them off to work as teenagers and pocket your money (which happens in some countries) be prepared to have someone who is so tormented they find it painful to even think about forgiving you or loving you.
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lord_dude@reddit

When anon takes of the filter
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lurker_archon@reddit

OP should ignore every advice, cause with that digits anything is possible.
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cosplay-degenerate@reddit

The divine 999
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TypicalMootis@reddit

The commenter is a burnout with no ability to adapt. I moved every year of my life growing up straight through to 18, it didn't damage me and actually made me more able to adapt to new environments and job conditions compared to friends of mine that lived in the same place their whole lives
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deranged_moron@reddit

And how many of your friends are 4chan degenerates with shallow social connections?
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TypicalMootis@reddit

7
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Higuos@reddit

Damn you have 7 friends?!?!
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Salaino0606@reddit

It is fucked up , but companies don't value employee loyalty these days , at least not properly. It's all a shitty domino effect.
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Brilliant-Mountain57@reddit

Your money matters more than your kid's social circle fuck that little shit he'll live. We have children to serve us and our lives NOT the other way around!
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Jumpy-Object99@reddit

Curriculum is standardized in the US at the AP level and we have smart phones now the kid will live.
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ToaKraka@reddit (OP)

> Curriculum is standardized in the US at the AP level AP classes are optional ways to get college credit in high school, not part of a high school's mandatory curriculum. > we have smart phones now Yes, long-distance relationships have such a track record of success.
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Jumpy-Object99@reddit

AP classes are not just for college credits, they're also the upper track i.e. where your kid should be if you're invested in their education. But not to fret, accelerated courses(the track below that) is all relatively comparable across schools too. I myself hated that track bullshit since it's decided when you're like in the sixth fucking grade and determines what college you get into, but if consistency is what you're after across different schools, they ensure that. As for long distance relationships - shit I dunno what to tell you man. Short distance relationships fall apart once you introduce distance too.
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ProtoLibturd@reddit

Yup. Its not like humanity was ever able to be nomadic, ever.
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azaza34@reddit

Which you did with a social circle that was more than just your family.
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ProtoLibturd@reddit

Well the invading mongols and other tribes were defo considered my new family, just like sis became a part of the new clan and like cousin julius became part of the slave family as soon as he was put on that ship....
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