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kids over 30 unhappy as well. I moved back into my parents after a separation. Trying to save up to get my own place but every time I get some money something big comes up or a kid gets dental work or something like a car dies. Canada is not a place people can thrive. Those who got some money gifted to them do well. I am left waiting for my parents to die so I can afford a home on my inheritance. Sad

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Sympathy for your personal hardship. That just sucks.

There was a facetious comment that was flagged discussing that, as a HN user who certainly makes $XXX XXX, you can't be having a hard time. It is interesting, though, that even folks on HN (who I think it's fair to assume skew towards the higher end of the income distribution?) are also having a hard time.

Note that I mean interesting in the worst way. I hear these stories from folks of all walks of life in the non-metropolitan region that I live in, and I've generally just chalked it up to not knowing the upper-class folks (the ones making $240K writing client-side TS at MANGA). I suppose I'll now read about these same struggles of affording, affording kids, planning to retire, and so on here on HN.

Heck, kids over 40 are unhappy too. I think there was a study done that said unhappiness starts to grow once you're 19, up until you're 50, then you start becoming happy again.

I think if that study were done every year, we'd see the "happy again" age trend older and older, as retirement becomes less and less feasible for the majority.

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