Yes, this was someone saying they bought in b’ham and “only” needed 10k. Bristol and London are on a different scale from that.
Yeah, I couldn't afford to pay the 800 quid to see my family during my PhD either. Thankfully they covered it.
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I have had my mum and dad pay for things before but now they’re both retired and in ill health, they need all the money they have for themselves
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Which is actually bad on two fronts:I get very little empathy from my family for only visiting once a year and the cause of our annual argument among siblings is how I claim to be too busy and too poor to contribute. It creates a lot of tension and my family has no idea what it’s
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like to be doing a phd. I do envy people who get support from their family, in my family the roles are reversed and I am under constant guilt for not being supportive enough
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I haven't had any support, literally any, from my family at all other than what I described. Growing up was really hard because lack of emotional support had led to some very deep, and sadly very serious, issues in my later life. So yeah, I feel you.
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I'm gonna mute this thread, nothing person it's just too overwhelming how many replies I'm getting. If you need me though please feel free to tag me back in or DM me.
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Same here. I couldn’t afford to go home for five years. We barely survived tbh (hubby and i were doing PhD at the same time.)
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