What are your retirement plans?
I'll start first.
BR14 isn't entirely wrong in telling me to go back home again and again. No offence taken here, I am thicker than that.
But this question has been present in conversations for some time. Most of the people that I know have considered or are considering leaving in the next few years.
Some of the complaints, rent is high and can't potentially imagine owning a place that is not in a forgotten part of the world surrounded by people that you find difficult to associate with.
London is nice, not that much community wise but more interesting people around. Always something to do. (or as it was before covid)
Food is getting worse, takeaway is expensive and finding anything organic is difficult. You have to stay in an affluent area, surrounded by rich people to have access to it. Processed food has been on the increase in all countries especially in this era of stagnant wages and masked inflation. People have to tighten the belt... but in the long term can't see how that is not creating more health problems.
Weather has not been great and I think has been challenging my mental health for the previous weeks.
Permanent salaries are a joke, 65k/year is 4.1k net, you'd be lucky to put anything aside for rainy days or for medical emergencies like dental. How can you even save out of that? It might be good up north but in SE... you'd have to go into a shared house.
I've tried Sweden for a 6m gig, weather is worse, food is nice but people are empty. At least around here people are a bit more down to earth, witty.
Everything is expensive and you have to live really frugal. They are just deceptively wealthy, in terms of purchasing power, I can't see how they can to put food on the table on the generic 3k salaries that you see.
Eastern Europe is deserted, most of the good workers are in the West slaving away with the hope of a better life but probably plenty of them get through the same deception. Stories that I hear is that you can't find good plumbers, construction workers. Salaries have gone up significantly but a lot of people have migrated.
I am trying to find some hope at least but it seems that my generation without inheritance is doomed to slave away in the modern politically correct establisment. Drinking their sorrows and looking for meaningless relations on tinder.
Am I not seeing the full side of the glass?
BR14 isn't entirely wrong in telling me to go back home again and again. No offence taken here, I am thicker than that.
But this question has been present in conversations for some time. Most of the people that I know have considered or are considering leaving in the next few years.
Some of the complaints, rent is high and can't potentially imagine owning a place that is not in a forgotten part of the world surrounded by people that you find difficult to associate with.
London is nice, not that much community wise but more interesting people around. Always something to do. (or as it was before covid)
Food is getting worse, takeaway is expensive and finding anything organic is difficult. You have to stay in an affluent area, surrounded by rich people to have access to it. Processed food has been on the increase in all countries especially in this era of stagnant wages and masked inflation. People have to tighten the belt... but in the long term can't see how that is not creating more health problems.
Weather has not been great and I think has been challenging my mental health for the previous weeks.
Permanent salaries are a joke, 65k/year is 4.1k net, you'd be lucky to put anything aside for rainy days or for medical emergencies like dental. How can you even save out of that? It might be good up north but in SE... you'd have to go into a shared house.
I've tried Sweden for a 6m gig, weather is worse, food is nice but people are empty. At least around here people are a bit more down to earth, witty.
Everything is expensive and you have to live really frugal. They are just deceptively wealthy, in terms of purchasing power, I can't see how they can to put food on the table on the generic 3k salaries that you see.
Eastern Europe is deserted, most of the good workers are in the West slaving away with the hope of a better life but probably plenty of them get through the same deception. Stories that I hear is that you can't find good plumbers, construction workers. Salaries have gone up significantly but a lot of people have migrated.
I am trying to find some hope at least but it seems that my generation without inheritance is doomed to slave away in the modern politically correct establisment. Drinking their sorrows and looking for meaningless relations on tinder.
Am I not seeing the full side of the glass?
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