[Kurtz79]

Context: In Italy you have free education, healthcare and higher education is dirt cheap (and not necessarily bad) compared to other countries. It's by all accounts a first world country in terms of civil rights and development (regardless of what some italians, and non italians, think).

There are way worse countries to raise a child in (economically speaking). I was raised there with a brother and a sister just with my father's (lower middle class) salary, and I had a fantastic childhood.

[trumbitta2]

Yes. But. The "owning a house" + "can't afford buying a new one when I want / need it" thing is the real point in my case :)