<story><title>Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/age-marry-kids-graduation-milestones-800ffec7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkclouds</author><text>A positive spin but arguably deceitful spin on the state of affairs in the US and UK.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;newsevents&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;uk-drops-new-global-ranking-life-expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;newsevents&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;uk-drops-new-gl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;According to the OECD, state the researchers, the UK recently became the second most economically unequal country in Europe after Bulgaria.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Me personally, I dont even think I&amp;#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.&lt;p&gt;More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK, but you cant point this stuff out to people in the street because they&amp;#x27;ll have a go back, a form of denial of the situation in the UK.&lt;p&gt;Its become very dog eat dog, quality of work in decline but costs still going up.&lt;p&gt;Crime in my experience is also off the scale and the attitude of the police now means I no longer report crimes to them.&lt;p&gt;So yes this sort of article is portrayed as positive spin but is in fact deceitful spin.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>These types of articles always try to put a positive spin on life just getting harder for many.&lt;p&gt;Less people are able to move out and start families due to student loans and wages not keeping up with cost of living.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t a matter of &amp;#x27;well , in time you&amp;#x27;ll have everything you want&amp;#x27;. It&amp;#x27;s more like you may never have what your parents had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>86415632</author><text>&amp;gt; More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK&lt;p&gt;Do you have a source for this? I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1115077&amp;#x2F;monthly-deaths-in-england-and-wales&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1115077&amp;#x2F;monthly-deaths-i...&lt;/a&gt; which made it seem like that wasn&amp;#x27;t the case. I&amp;#x27;ve seen &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;graphic-detail&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;expensive-energy-may-have-killed-more-europeans-than-covid-19-last-winter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;graphic-detail&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;expensiv...&lt;/a&gt; which shows that more people died from high energy prices than from covid, but only since energy prices went up, not in total.</text></comment>
<story><title>Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/age-marry-kids-graduation-milestones-800ffec7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkclouds</author><text>A positive spin but arguably deceitful spin on the state of affairs in the US and UK.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;newsevents&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;uk-drops-new-global-ranking-life-expectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;newsevents&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;uk-drops-new-gl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;According to the OECD, state the researchers, the UK recently became the second most economically unequal country in Europe after Bulgaria.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Me personally, I dont even think I&amp;#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.&lt;p&gt;More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK, but you cant point this stuff out to people in the street because they&amp;#x27;ll have a go back, a form of denial of the situation in the UK.&lt;p&gt;Its become very dog eat dog, quality of work in decline but costs still going up.&lt;p&gt;Crime in my experience is also off the scale and the attitude of the police now means I no longer report crimes to them.&lt;p&gt;So yes this sort of article is portrayed as positive spin but is in fact deceitful spin.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>These types of articles always try to put a positive spin on life just getting harder for many.&lt;p&gt;Less people are able to move out and start families due to student loans and wages not keeping up with cost of living.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t a matter of &amp;#x27;well , in time you&amp;#x27;ll have everything you want&amp;#x27;. It&amp;#x27;s more like you may never have what your parents had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>908B64B197</author><text>&amp;gt; Me personally, I dont even think I&amp;#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, seems there&amp;#x27;s a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don&amp;#x27;t seem too keen on returning. We&amp;#x27;ve been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the &amp;quot;dangerous&amp;quot; US but work for American companies?).&lt;p&gt;Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an &amp;quot;AI Superpower&amp;quot; and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent. I recall someone pitching the &amp;quot;Silicon Roundabout&amp;quot; and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US [0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&amp;#x2F;at-work&amp;#x2F;tech-careers&amp;#x2F;the-global-brain-trade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&amp;#x2F;at-work&amp;#x2F;tech-careers&amp;#x2F;the-global-bra...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>