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This comment kind of illustrates the knowledge assymetry.

We're talking about people in their thirties. People who graduated in 2008 and were amazing candidates but couldn't get a job because there _were none_. People who were then passed up for internships in 2013 as things got better because every hiring manager who graduated in 2006 (with maybe 20 grand in debt easily paid off) or boomer (who had no student debt but even if they did could gasp discharge it in bankruptcy) reviewing CV's thinks "wtf has this idiot been doing the last 4 years; hire that fresh grad".

Maybe they'll be able to afford a house when they're 50. Because paying off a mountain of student loans AND paying insane rent AND saving for a deposit (and god help you if you want children) has gotten to be basically impossible for a huge chunk of the population.

And yeah, there are lower cost of living places. Hope your partner and yourself can find work in the same one. And that somehow they magically make your student loans cheaper.



Thanks for taking the time to educate. I had no idea.




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