was talking to one of my best friend at the workplace, a 50odd mother of 2, both childs older than me and still struggling.
we happened to branch into the topic of marriage and expenses. she had her first child at the age of 26. she mentioned that the elder son at 25 is far far away from marriage due to studies and career. The son said “ma, if your gone one day, dun sell the flat, me and mei mei will know wat to do with it”
she said at that time, it wasn’t hard nor financially tight to make that decision, it just came and she went with the flow, btw, there was a govt law capping a max of 2 children each couple.
5 years away from it, I wonder if I’ll be able to achieve that feat by that time, considering a 20k wedding dinner (if not the lady’s paternal side will think ur not good enough for their daughter), a 5k honeymoon, not mentioning big items like housing or renovation, no wonder she highly doubt my generation would be able to achieve that.
Looking at statistics such as the increasing population and rising cost, it daunts on me that we’ll be like hong kong one day, thou having a neat financial system, law and population to sustain that growth and GDP, its housing cost is scary.
Land is limited while we give birth to more and more with the govt calling to us for more labour force, in the name of seeking talents, more subsidy for more children, it wouldn’t be far to suggest that our gross plot ratio will hit hk’s in no time.
At that time one measly 3rm flat would be costly at much as 200k and all of us would be fang nu(house slave) or che nu(car slave)
No wonder ppl these days dun hold weddings, anyway its just an announcement with an open invitation for free food bundled with tiresome chores and very adult consequences.
posted by ikaira @ 10:15 AM,
