@PUNKEY,
I'm on the lease for another 11 months, lease is due for renewal next April. I want to plan to move out and find my own place and focus on starting a small business.
Bills are generally up to date but there's some weird things happening with rent I think because the Lady in the Granny flat pays rent and I think her rent is being used to cover my brothers rent as his income is reduced a lot because of COVID shutting all ports and cruises etc.
On a positive note my Aunt and Uncle (foster side of family) are going back to NZ mid May (most of their grandkids etc are in NZ so it makes sense for them to be near their grandkids in their later years), so hopefully that might help everyone else in the house to have some clarity of thought to better organize the house arrangement.
Money has never been something the foster parents have discussed which I think is tough to accept, as these are people who I have trusted ( like, been in the top 5 list of people I trust the most) for the majority of my life.
I think they have been far too over protective of us and maybe not talking about money is what they have always done, 'they will handle it for us', sort of attitude, but I completely disagree. Kids need to be raised to handle their own money, not mishandle it.
I think the best case scenario is if our immediate family have a sit down and work out care for parents in a village or something and we all contribute to that as a team, and the rest or us youngers kids move out and onwards get on with building our lives as those who went before us did.
We can still visit parents often but, "live in", daily contact actually gets taken for granted and is of less quality rather than planning an afternoon or evening properly as a family together.
I'm going to do a horticulture course over the cooler, drier months and save money to allow for a fresh start to my personal life and career too as my interest in my current job has worn out a bit. ( Currently work as a Lab Assistant in a Medical Lab.)
Cheers,
Young Dude making a new life in Australia
Also, I was born with a heart valve murmur which got fixed. But I think my parents don't see me being capable but, there's heaps of people who have minor health problems which are asymptomatic and we get on with our lives because we need to and society needs us to.