The rat race is no longer desirable as the old dream of owning your own home is becoming more fantasy. Pregnancy rates are down and divorce rates are high. Hous

The rat race is no longer desirable as the old dream of owning your own home is becoming more fantasy. Pregnancy rates are down and divorce rates are high. Housing is simply too big an investment for people barely able to afford a single home. Your only options are to move to a city and adjust to make a lucrative and highly commercial life there - or live in the middle of nowhere with fewer job prospects while the cost of everything around you goes up. As others mentioned, we now all have devices in our pockets that tell and show us the lives we don't have and the lives we desire.