Move to another city. Leave your small-town life. Chase your dream. Live alone. Pay more per capita to landlords. Pay more per capita for basic services, for staple foods. Pay businesses to do the household chores that you can't handle alone when you're also working a full-time job, and don't have a family to spread them out among.
Buy more stuff to fill that emotional hole. Consume.
Live in an apartment. Never see your neighbors. Wonder why you can't make friends.
Fly home once or twice a year to watch your parents slowly die of loneliness in the small town you left. And to watch them slowly become strangers to you; what do you have in common? Their only friends now are the talking heads on Fox News and you're a big-city liberal.
Eventually, fly home to bury one of them. Probably the other one in anywhere from a few months to a year.
Buy more stuff to fill that emotional hole. Consume.
Live in an apartment. Never see your neighbors. Wonder why you can't make friends.
Fly home once or twice a year to watch your parents slowly die of loneliness in the small town you left. And to watch them slowly become strangers to you; what do you have in common? Their only friends now are the talking heads on Fox News and you're a big-city liberal.
Eventually, fly home to bury one of them. Probably the other one in anywhere from a few months to a year.
It's the American dream.