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I cannot think of one single metric by which my life has gotten better over the last ten years (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Everything in my life is either exactly the same or worse. The single thing I can point to as improving over the last decade is my personal maturity and political understanding. And that’s pretty much just a result of getting older, would’ve happened no matter what.

Anyway I’m not gonna go on a whole rant here, wondering if people feel the same, if maybe there’s something I’m missing/haven’t thought of

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[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Funny thing: my life MIGHT have been able to have been better. I managed to land a FT job that paid 2.5x what I was getting. Had my partner and I been able to stay in our shithole apartment 1 or two years we might have been able to put together enough savings to get a down payment.

However our old lady landlord died who hadn't raised rent in 10 years died and her son sold the place. So all that income basically went to pay rent at a new place 2.5x more than what we were paying. So it's been. Barely keeping up with cost of living, getting by, but not thriving.