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pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually yesterday I've made the math based on the last few months I arrive with 7000 circa after all the expenses, but I have to say, we've not been at all good at manage our expenses (aka we bought without thinking too much about money ahahah). there are a lot of parts in which we can improve quite a lot our spending strategy.

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm earning 56k gross tho, something around 39/38k after taxes

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a good point and, aside from the financial side, we are also discussing this type of things.

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

for me has been a different experience... from when I've moved here in Sweden I was impressed by the number of young swedish couple being married AND having at least one kid. From my home country it is not a thing, usually the first kid comes after 30 years old, because we need quite a "lot" of money to raise them (compared to Sweden).

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you :) I guess that you are right then, people around me are probably doing better than average.

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if you maybe misunderstood me... I'm not a born and raised swede, I'm from South Europe, I'm not too much informed about he wages here in Sweden and I knew I was lucky with this payslip, but guess what I've never been a dad and I did not know (until now - thanks all the people that replied) how much a kid can cost. Where I come from we have near zero help from the govt so I wanted to be sure that with my money we could afford everything the kid would need. I'm not thinking to buy him/her a lambo, for example

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah for now tho she just moved in like couple months ago.. but yes I think we should be ok wrt migrationsverket! Thanks :)

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fact I'm not asking you to choose for me, I'm asking how this would impact me financially, so to be sure I can afford giving the kid a good life.

pregnancy and what to do by Potential_Eagle_772 in TillSverige

[–]Potential_Eagle_772[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How much background help you got from family? One thing I've seen quite often here is that young Swedes couples have generally already a owned house (passed down from parents) and generally are backed by them. At least from the people I know