“High prices are the best birth control tool”, I know this very well.
During the company’s lunch time, two colleagues and I formed a long-term “three-person dinner group”, while the ages of the three were in their 40s, 30s and 20s, which also happened to be post-70s, post-80s and post-90s.
Over dinner, marriage and children were our long-term topics of conversation, and our views differed greatly, and the biggest factor influencing our views was the house.
I am a representative of the post-70s, and my house has not bothered me much in my life, even in Beijing.
Regarding houses, I, and most of my post-70s colleagues, got into a car before the Beijing Olympics (2008).
Before 2008, even for a programmer with years of experience, earning 10,000 a month was not an easy thing to do, and I was quite proud of that.
In Beijing this year (2021), a new undergraduate programmer can earn more than that. Generally speaking, after 3 years of working in the industry and then jumping ship, an annual salary of 200,000 is almost the starting price.
In comparison, it seems that I, a post-70s who joined the workforce 20 years earlier, am quite miserable and did not catch a good time.
Actually not!
Around 06, I went to Suzhou Street in Beijing to do some work, and passed by a certain district, I saw the real estate agent listed a house with a unit price of over 10,000.
“Let’s not let people live, a square meter 10,000, I do not eat and drink enough for a fucking month!”
And then compared to today, and then think about what I said at that time, I feel magic, because today, the same location, the same neighborhood, the average price is almost 100,000.
The reality is that although we complained about not being able to afford a house on Suzhou Street at that time, there were a lot of houses with an average price of a few thousand, so after working for a few years, we all bought our first suites, and we didn’t need to chew on them.
After that, housing prices began to rise rapidly, compared to the 70s, the 80s who worked 10 years later to buy a house is a heavy thing.
For the later 80s, ordinary families, rely on a person’s work savings to buy a house is almost impossible, generally is the savings of both men and women plus the support of both parents to bite the bullet.
But even so, a good location, a little more spacious house is also afraid to think about.
Today, the first 90s have reached the age of marriage, and in Beijing, there are few options for a down payment on a car, cash 1.5 million.
But the reality is that even in relatively high-income it circles, for the average family, 1.5 million is a scary number.
So, what I see is that for the house, the 90s are no longer struggling and are not even willing to talk about it, some say they are numb and lack the spirit of struggle, but what I feel is clearly desperation.
So, as far as the house is concerned, along with the price of housing all the way up, I see the reality is.
After 70, buy 2 sets of houses, good location, large area, a set of self-occupied, a set of rental.
After 80, buy 1 set of houses, the location is average, the area is embarrassing.
After 90, can not afford to buy a house.
But yeah, the house in our life and our life is so necessary. No house, the children’s school is a big problem. The house is small, the children + the elderly, squeeze can not squeeze.
So, for children, the reality I see is.
After 70, in the full 2 children after the release, many people are urgent panic to catch the last train and gave birth to a, although hard, but after all, can still turn over.
After 80, want to have a second child, look at their own space distressed home, and then think about the monthly mortgage and child-rearing expenses, and then think about the cruel workplace 35 line, a long sigh, or forget it.
After 90, I’m sorry, I don’t want anything, because there is no use thinking about it, so simply lie flat and play dead, not to mention having a baby, sometimes feel tired of talking about love.
About these, my post-70s, post-80s, post-90s meal mix so, enlarge to colleagues circle, circle of friends also probably so.
Our generation used to believe that struggle definitely changes fate, and had a little bit of their own “success” attributed to the ability and complacency, and as we grew older, looking behind the same hard-working 80, 90 after the very different fate, I believe again.
We are all fish and shrimp swept away by the tide of the times, unable to help themselves, go with the flow.
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