Yeah, I feel this way in general but then I think about the specific. Growing up, I knew a single mother who worked in a woman-dominated and rather underpaid f

Yeah, I feel this way in general but then I think about the specific. Growing up, I knew a single mother who worked in a woman-dominated and rather underpaid field despite being (eventually) university educated and working her way up to management. She could afford to rent, but not to buy, mostly because the down payment was perpetually out of reach despite living relatively frugally. Then as her career started to make some traction (her late 40s), where she lived and worked the property market went stratospheric over a relatively small number of years and she was entirely priced out. She died before retirement, so I don't know what that would have looked like.