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While we fall in to your "couple with youngish kids" demographic, we don't do the western property ladder career path thing and actually choose not to live in the west at all. I read your post and was like "Hah, 1950s automobile suburban [dys|u]topia strikes again!" By way of example, we just spent 3 months travelling around Europe, in some cases visiting people we'd met randomly in restaurants here in Asia (and their llamas). Never assume the world operates similarly to your own turf.