Reply To: Challenges of making Aliyah and how to overcome them?

BarryLS1: Don’t judge people about whom you know nothing. You want to talk frugal? When my husband was unemployed, for two years “meatloaf” in our home was made out of bread crusts. We eat meat twice a year, on Pesach and on Sukkos. I did not buy a new garment for myself for the first eight years we lived here. No car, no frills of any kind, and the two of us work like dogs just trying to keep food on the table for the kids. (By the way, my husband now works in a completely different field than he originally trained for–he did adapt, but the salary is less than he would make working in a fast food restaurant in the US.) You came here later in life and are presumably not employed here, not supporting children nor trying to navigate them through school; you probably own a home, too. Just because your first few years have been charmed does not mean you have made better choices. Your circumstances are different. You cannot generalize from your own (so far rather brief) experience to assume that anyone else who may be having difficulty is making bad choices. Gmar tov.