In my 30s:

• can get a 50k mortgage with my salary but ok I rent a decent place
• dad’s old car works fine for me
• beaches are crowded shit holes but garden is lively and nice and wild.
• make just below average income at one of our countries best universities.
• 4 cats that are awesome, hobbies that are awesome, friends that are awesome, and I can smoke weed whenever I want nowadays.

Yeah the machine should still burn but at leasty I can be moderately happy without paying.