I find it hard to imagine how my parents, at 30, bought their land, built their house, and created a home with their children.
This erosion of life’s fundamental milestones charts the same course as our broader societal fractures. While the elite class grows wealthier and more disconnected, entire generations find themselves unable to achieve the basic markers of adult life their parents took for granted
From Welcome to the Decade of Discontent. by Joan Westenberg
Who could afford houses without acquiring a loan these days?
It now seems normal for a working-class person to be in debt for 30 years—forever bound by the neck.
The closest we could to having a family is raising a cat (or whatever pet you wish—and some call themselves furrparents) without living from paycheck to paycheck. This is because salaries for the middle class only provide a small window for savings and barely for leisure.
To some who could afford to build a disposable income, you could only imagine how they enslaved themselves to working long hours—juggling from one work to another or in front of the computer—to be financially flexible. Some endured being far away from their families to taste the proverbial “greener grass.”
Living in a country with a troubled government system is another story.
jessa 