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[quote=Anonymous]When I was college (not in the US) I received government funding that covered tuition and (very frugal) living expenses. The amount differed each year but was never above a certain amount and sometimes took a while to arrive, dependent on complex forms and calculations based on my parents’ income. One day I received the final check for the year and it was nearly $2k more than expected. (At this point i I was living on a little more than $3k a year so this was a considerable sum). I put it in to a high interest bank account and waited for them to ask for it back. They didn’t.

About three years later I used that money to buy my first car, which a few years later I sold and took the proceeds (again about $2k) and that was what funded my move to the US about 25 years ago. I literally had a one way ticket and a as couple of thousand dollars. Now I have a net worth of $3m and a lovely family. Maybe I could have done it without that small nest egg but it was an enormous amount of money at the time and without it I might not have had the confidence to move.[/quote]

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