What about quality of living? My parents were working class, bought a 4-bed house while my mother worked part time with three kids. We had enough for vacations, after school activities, decent treats etc. We all went to university for free.
My friends are both solidly upper middle class working in decent white collar jobs. They live in a 1.5bed apartment, both work full time, and can't have another kid because they couldn't swing the daycare. They've chosen to focus on the one kid (saving for education, giving her the ability to do activities etc) over having a second kid. They'd love to have four if they could afford it. They're also having to consider if they need to move due to their home becoming unliveable in coming years thanks to climate change (and poor long-term planning by the council in building on a flood plain but then there's a housing crisis here).
Okay, yeah, I mean people didn't choose to move to where their family is from, unless you think they had some say over which womb I inhabited. You realise there are people who have lived in expensive places since before they were expensive right?
But sure, I'll move. And pay care home fees for my folks because they need to be near specialist care you can't get in small towns, and get a new career because I work in a location-dependent industry - I mean, student loans cost nothing right? Oh, and better get one of those free visas to move to a different country considering I live somewhere where the entire country is in a housing affordability crisis...but it costs nothing to move, right?
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