Didn't think this through

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah, that's all basically as I imagined. It's extremely sad and unfortunate. We (the "developed" or "western" world) are squandering every advantage our ancestors fought to get us, under the erroneous theory that it's undeserved "privilege."

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Agreed. The citizens deserve a say, but are being given no choice. Housing prices are no longer 4x a persons salary like in the 90's, it 10x a persons salary. Utterly unaffordable thanks to these deviants and criminals taking our land and earnings from us. Every privilege earned is a privilege deserved, fuck those who would take it from us.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's depressing. My house was a little under 2x my annual salary. That world is "gone with the wind," I guess, and people have just resigned themselves to everything continually getting worse.

9/11/01 was a huge turning point. That's when this notion of ratcheting "new normals" became acceptable. To France's credit, I remember a certain reluctance to go along with some of it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can hardly imagine the ability to buy a house at just 2x an annual salary in the UK. Even on very comfortable income, my best bet now is to plan to buy abroad and continue renting here. Between me and my partner, we could probably build a decent size house on a nice patch of land in Eastern Europe for around 2x our salary. Or maybe an apartment by the beach in the Mediterranean. You are right, I guess resigning oneself to things only getting worse has become the norm because I really don't see us staying here forever...

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good on you for thinking creatively about ways to improve your life.