• Johanno@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Reality:

    You get fucked by big companies. Your snow is reduced to februrary because of climate change.

    Finding a special other is almost impossible due to social media fed anxiety. Meeting people outside of the internet is unknown and people on the internet are the weirdest ones.

    Owning a house is a privilege of the upper society.

    Thanks to our parents and grand parents the governments in most countries are more right wing than before.

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      I agree w most of this but I’d argue most people meet outside the internet. I’m online far too much for it to be healthy and even I meet most people irl

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      While this may be true, I usually think that the problem is me, not other people

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        Well it is always good to look at it from a different view and see if you are the problem, but if you have done that come to a logical conclusion

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      “Reality” from OP’s post is not 10 years from now, it’s right now for me except it’s not Christmas and snowing because it’s September.

      I achieved it by living in a low cost of living area and being smart. I got academic scholarships to get my start in college, then built a mountain of student loan debt as I continued through college, then entered the workforce and built a good career. Still working on almost 40k of loans and a mortgage, but I have it all well under control.

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        Good for you. I for my case also don’t have it bad. Never even knew of Student debt until I went to reddit, because in Germany most education is free.

        However we should consider us lucky and most people won’t even have a chance to get there even if they work 20 hours a day.

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          It pretty much is for a majority of my contemporaries in this low cost of living area. Lots of nice houses around here for under $300k. Mine was under 150k

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            If everyone lived in a low cost of living area then it wouldn’t be low cost of living. I’m happy for your success, but the fact that the rich throw crumbs to some of us isn’t cause for celebration when there’s millions worse off than you and even you deserve more.

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              I didn’t say everybody should move here. I don’t want them to. It’s just a message of support to those who think life is hopeless, that there are other opportunities out in the world that they should be aware of. Too many people get trapped in their local mindset and don’t even think that things could be better somewhere else.

              Also a reminder of the value of being frugal. Living in a high cost of living area is the antithesis of being frugal.