Thread:Hitsuji Mamoru/@comment-28209369-20170731190723/@comment-4802891-20170816101159

Finland also has a big social security system I see. With the same kind of whatthefuckery for reasons only them would understand and you just have to accept they suddenly can't help you anymore.

When I lived in Paris, far-far-far away from my hometown, I wasn't a proper student as the studies I took (manga) isn't recognized as a proper education branch in France (yet), therefore I couldn't get any financial help. I managed to get myself 200€ to help paying my rent. If my parents weren't there to help me, I wouldn't have been able to stay for the entirety of my studies. Something that happened to a co-student of mine unfortunately -- and I feel bad because my parents got in some (minor) trouble when I returned because of that. All of that because I couldn't get those minimal help for the sole reason manga isn't considered a study (while going to the Beaux-Arts artistic school is -- Logic? What's that?

I'm not really happy to hear that kind of insurance isn't that better where you live, but I can relate.