When John and his partner bought their first home away from the city, their relationship fell apart. As more young people are forced to leave their communities for cheaper housing, will their relationships be impacted?
John vividly remembers walking his dog with his partner of eight years and asking himself: 'Is this the rest of my life?' Just five months earlier, they had bought their first home in a new housing development 20km from the city. "It felt like we'd gone forward in time 15 years, and we were suddenly 40, living domesticated lives where suddenly we weren't around fun things that we previously had access to," John, 29, told The Feed.
"I think living in suburbia highlighted the mundane elements of our lifestyle and suddenly it felt like a bit of a checklist," John said. "You go to work nine to five and you get home and you make dinner and have dinner together at six o'clock, and then you potter around for a little bit and then you're in bed at nine o'clock. That never felt like something that we did when we rented.
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