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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Let's do a poll!
Decide when I was ~10 that I would never have any.
People are all different. When my wife decided to stop at 2, I was quite sad for a while.
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I'm just annoyed when some people inflict their opinions on me.
Decide when I was ~10 that I would never have any.
Even when I was a kid I did not like hanging out with kids. Always preferred dogs.
Was thrilled when a friend found a doctor who would do V's on young unmarrieds with no kids (this was pre-internet, and not easy to find) to seal the deal.
Interesting results. I expected a higher percentage would be parents. I would speculate that it is just a self selection bias - a fair number of people choosing not to have kids may be thinking forward to FIRE.
AgreeIf you think about the dynamics of FIRE, it's not surprising. Given what it takes to get there, it's natural that we'd be overrepresented by [-]cheapskates[/-] LBYMers, people without children (who can save for retirement instead of college), and folks in the public sector. All of these groups are more likely to be able to FIRE sooner. No doubt we have some here who hit the "trifecta" and are in all three of these groups. That combination would more or less be the early retirement version of a winning lottery ticket.