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[quote=Anonymous]From the perspective of a 55+ woman who divorced at 45 who earns about $175K-- We spent thousands a month on daycare so that I could keep working from birth to FT preschool. In Europe, I would have had longer leave and it would have been paid leave. Once in daycare, it would have cost much less out of our pockets. All that money spent on daycare and then saving for college $$$ was not put into our retirement accounts. It's unheard of in most of Europe to need $300K to send your kid to a residential 4-yr college. Mostly, the students attend college in their local area and continue living at home with zero stigma of that being a loser thing to do. And tuition is usually 1/10th of USA tuition. In the USA, most professionals have to save for their own retirement, with a measley 5% match to your 401K if you're lucky. In other countries, there are real old-school pensions that far exceed what we will get from Social Security. So, you don't have to worry about getting access to the higher earner's pension to survive old age without being a pauper. In most major cities in Europe, home ownership isn't as big of a deal as it is here so all of the money we spend to live in a SFH vs. a condo/apartment to raise a family isn't necessary.

In the USA, you're only able to easily divorce and maintain a comfortable standard of living as a woman if you're earning about the same as your husband and can easily maintain your lifestyle on your own, or if you were a SAHM married to a VERY high earner who can afford to maintain his lifestyle AND pay for yours as alimony. And neither of those are common situations. [/quote]

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