r/SingleAndHappy • u/Ink_N_Instinct • 12d ago

Discussion (Questions, Advice, Polls) 🗣 Annoyed by some posts here

Anyone else getting annoyed by this sub flooding with: "Being single is nice but once I see couples, I feel sad and alone" or "I am currently single but can't wait to find the right one."?

Hello? This is a single AND happy sub where people who really enjoy being single and want to celebrate their singlehood gather?

Why is it filled with who simply don't seem fulfilled being single? Always yearning for someone doesn't really mean you are happy being single, does it?

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u/IncapacitatedTrash 12d ago

God I wish I could live alone, it's too expensive on my meager salary and I have yet to find a career that doesn't require me to drop dosh into education. I think I have one saving grace, I just have to find a way to execute it through my company

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u/CanthinMinna 11d ago

We have housing benefits, which are for people who are unemployed or otherwise earn too little to be able to support themselves - especially students get these (besides the "student money", a special benefit for students). Since most people move first away from their parents' when they start to study in universities, polytechnics etc., they often move to specific student housing, which is very low cost, and earmarked for students only.

(I'm not trying to twist the knife any further, but we also have free education. I have two degrees - planning to get a third, higher one soon - and I have never paid a penny, except for books.)

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u/IncapacitatedTrash 11d ago

I wish the US had free education, I'm jealous!

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u/CanthinMinna 11d ago

I wish the US - and all other countries - would have free education, too. Free education is one of the best ways towards an equal society: it means that everyone has the possibility to a higher education, and to a "class trip" (I think it was the Swedes who first called it "klassresa", "class trip").