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Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I don't like to ever worry about my check account bouncing. If it gets below several k's I start sweating and tighten the belt buckle. It helps that my mom was raised in depression like conditions (she was a teenager when they got electricity or indoor water) and I was instilled with a better sense of need vs want than most people. Until recently I never bought new cloths (excluding undies) and I've never had a new car.
Not sure if anyone mention this before but there's a cost to owning a house vs. renting. Things "break" and you'd have to fix them so factor in some saving to account for those situations. We learnt that the hard way on our first property. The cost to get things fix, even when doing it yourself is still a cost you must account for... what happens if the stove goes out? lighting? water heater? Heat pump or AC unit? Pipe leaks? etc.
Just be smart and have some savings to cover all situations.
You are bad with math. The second party in the marriage, any of them would still have the same % of success applied to them for their possible subsequent marriages and thus the end result stating that most people who get married, even multiple times end up staying married for life.
Speaking of data that can't really be tracked. How about your stated divorce rates, where did you get them from on how was that data compiled? The truth is the entire data set is very hard to track accurately
What do you mean the second party in the marriage would have the same percentage of success applied to them? And my math and data is right there in front of you, can you account for the 218 other individuals involved in the sequence?
And the data I posted is from the following source:
What do you mean the second party in the marriage would have the same percentage of success applied to them? And my math and data is right there in front of you, can you account for the 218 other individuals involved in the sequence?
And the data I posted is from the following source:
The other 218 people would follow the same success/failure rate for first/second/third marriage would they not? Moderator cut: personal remarks
Look at your source and see the exclusions, the use of probably and so forth. There is no real accurate way to track this. But if the first paragraph mentions probably 40% divorce rate, possibly 50%, 45-50%and 41%. It would seem from all these various data points most first marriages don't end in divorce. It also looks like the per capita divorce rate has been on a steady decline.
Wonder if the OP will come back... I wonder about the horse!
Right now he is one-and-done.
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