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the story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a twobedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won't be able to have children for at least a decade because they can't afford to buy a house yet.
I read that, and I thought what planet she is living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury (奢华), not a fertility requirement.
A 26yearold man in the story is disappointed that he can't afford to get a PhD in literature.Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years.
Yes, it's sad that these young people feel so lost.But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality.Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks people's expectations grow up when their wealth appears to be increasing.Their parents probably see their home values rise along with their investments.
“So we have people who have grown up in an environment where people have great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.
This recession (经济衰退) will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group.In the meantime, it seems much better for our mental health to focus on being grateful — for our onebedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day — than on longing for some kind of luxurious life.
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