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Eur 80 / month is terribly low. I can pay a single day of babysitting with that money. But I don't receive it, it's for lower income families only. The sad tru

Eur 80 / month is terribly low. I can pay a single day of babysitting with that money. But I don't receive it, it's for lower income families only. The sad truth is that Italy is hard for young people with the wrong degree (or without a degree). Postponing children is often a necessity, if you don't want to depend on your parents (who often own an house and have a nice pension). And so many skilled people just leave.

Melting_Harps 7y ago
> The sad truth is that Italy is hard for young people with the wrong degree (or without a degree). Postponing children is often a necessity, if you don't want to depend on your parents (who often own an house and have a nice pension). And so many skilled people just leave. That's pretty much the millennial plight, and I agree; the sum is absurd when put in proper context, but that is what the Italian Government deems 'necessary' to pay just to keep the native population (targeted low income and likely low educated) churning out more numbers. Apparently the secretary general wanted to double that, and 2-3x it for subsequent children. The US probably subsidizes it even more with all the tax credits for having children, too. I'm not saying this to be supportive of the process, just restating my observations. Also, Italy has the easiest immigration laws of all of the EU to help boost its population numbers. Speaking of depending on their parents, I met a girl in Croatia visiting her Italian BF (she was from Washington) as she was thinking about staying long-term and living 'la dolce vita' a bit longer at her to be in-laws place when she realized all she had to do was marry her BF and would be granted complete citizenship. They thought about taking a year to just travel if they did it, I wonder if she went along with it?

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Eur 80 / month is terribly low. I can pay a single day of babysitting with that money. But I don't receive it, it's for lower income families only. The sad tru

by alanfranz 7y ago

Melting_Harps 7y ago
> The sad truth is that Italy is hard for young people with the wrong degree (or without a degree). Postponing children is often a necessity, if you don't want to depend on your parents (who often own an house and have a nice pension). And so many skilled people just leave. That's pretty much the millennial plight, and I agree; the sum is absurd when put in proper context, but that is what the Italian Government deems 'necessary' to pay just to keep the native population (targeted low income and likely low educated) churning out more numbers. Apparently the secretary general wanted to double that, and 2-3x it for subsequent children. The US probably subsidizes it even more with all the tax credits for having children, too. I'm not saying this to be supportive of the process, just restating my observations. Also, Italy has the easiest immigration laws of all of the EU to help boost its population numbers. Speaking of depending on their parents, I met a girl in Croatia visiting her Italian BF (she was from Washington) as she was thinking about staying long-term and living 'la dolce vita' a bit longer at her to be in-laws place when she realized all she had to do was marry her BF and would be granted complete citizenship. They thought about taking a year to just travel if they did it, I wonder if she went along with it?