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People have to pay for basic needs. But there is a wild difference from living in shared accommodation, consuming the non-branded products, biking, vacationing
by madsbuch 5y ago
People have to pay for basic needs. But there is a wild difference from living in shared accommodation, consuming the non-branded products, biking, vacationing as a backpacker in hostels etc. to living in a private apartment, eating out, having a car, vacationing in hotels / resorts etc.
As a person who spend most of my life studying on just a little income my expenses are only slowly increasing. Much slower than my earnings.
My guess is if one got a permanent job early on it might be hard to imaging how to live frugally.
- bodge5000 5y agoAnother commenter pointed me to the obvious that it probably does come down to savings, which makes sense because I do already do those things. I do have a car, but thats from pre-WFH, so I could probably get rid of that now, and I don't go away for vacations at all, I just stay at home or at most go to a caravan site. So yeh, might just be a waiting game.