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WE THOUGHT OWNING OUR OWN HOME WOULD STAY JUST A DREAM... THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED 😭🏡🇳🇱 Hi everyone, My name is Maria. I'm 33 years old. I was born in the Philippines, but I've been living in the Netherlands for many years now together with my husband and our two-year-old daughter, Sofia. Lumaki ako sa isang very ordinary family in Manila. My dad is now 67. My mum is 64. Dad worked as a bus driver his whole life. Mum worked as a nursing assistant. Money was always tight. Hindi naman kami sobrang hirap, but there was never extra money lying around. Still, my parents did everything they could to make sure I got an education. They saved for years. Sometimes giving up things they wanted just so they could put money aside for my future. After high school, I got accepted to Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. For our family, that was huge. I became the first person in our family to move to Europe to study. Honestly, those first few years were tough. Classes during the day. Evening shifts at Albert Heijn. Sometimes extra shifts in a small café just to cover expenses. There were days when I was exhausted beyond words. But somehow I kept going. After graduation, I found a job as a care home coordinator near Rotterdam. That's where I met my future husband. His name is Michael. He's an industrial maintenance technician. Just a regular hardworking guy. No business. No investments. No rich family. Just work, work, work. We moved in together. Eventually got married. A few years later our daughter Sofia was born. When she turned one, we realised our apartment had become way too small. Her cot was right beside our bed. Toys everywhere. The buggy took up half the hallway. Whenever Sofia fell asleep, we'd sneak into the kitchen and talk quietly so we wouldn't wake her. Sometimes it honestly felt like all three of us were living in one tiny room. We started looking for something bigger. But quickly realised that a decent family apartment n
