Abolutely. We’re not even millenials and our “biological bus” is pulling out of the proverbial station. It would be fine to live more like Europeans, but we just can’t live more like Europeans here. First, there aren’t many European-like flats here – they’re actually pretty large, in small buildings because they were actually built for families, not single 20-somethings. Property like that here – it’s very “European-ness” – would fetch a premium on top of over-priced everything. Second, we did live in Europe and, while certain things were more expensive, broadly our cost of living was lower than in Canada. No need for a car (let alone two), for example, plus a decent salary making a single income family actually possible. Crazy talk, I know. We were actually never closer to getting on said biological bus than we were when we lived there. We even have a hefty sum saved and invested, but at this point I’d really, really rather it didn’t go to Canadian real-estate.

I think Canadians have either been convinced otherwise or largely forgotten that we’re not supposed to owe huge sums of money for our entire adult lives. I don’t know how we got this way.

The situation is the same in the US too. US is overpopulation based on the number of jobs available.

With automation, there is a fewer need for people and there will be fewer jobs available.

They also tend to parade out one or two key “success” stories, that are nothing like the average person. Millionaires that would be wealthy regardless of where they’re from.