On the economy in Britain.

Like last month my one (half Sudanese) (half British) friend (the brother of the brother-sister pair) was telling me about what the economy is like back in London, where he recently moved back to.

He was saying that he hates it when people are anti-immigrant and xenophobic and all, and though it's not really where he's going with it, it's quite striking how many Spaniards and Italians and Poles there are everywhere in London, all quite young and all university-educated and all working coffee shop and bar jobs.

For example, he said that the waitress or bartender down at the pub near him where he's living is a recent Polish university graduate who got her degree in chemistry, "and now she's in London, working at the pub."

"It makes you realize just how systemic the problem really is," he was like.  "This is Italy, this is Spain, this is Poland, these are all really well-developed countries and there should be jobs for them at home, it's not like they're from the Sudan or something."

He also said that he had a very hard time finding a place to rent because of his fluctuating income and because everywhere you go they need proof of income, but he finally found a house full of people like him and now he lives there, five people living in a house that's actually meant for four.

He also said that the one out of them who's doing really well and has full-time work is a graphic designer, and the other week she asked everyone if she could sleep in the dining room for a month or two and sublet her room, since her income just barely covers her expenses and she can hardly save, and it would make her feel better if she could have around two months of rent set aside in her bank account for an emergency.

"And she's the one who's doing well," he was like.

He also said that his younger aunt is something to hear, since she got a job without finishing high school and now has a great retirement and 2 homes and all the hip surgeries from the NHS that she wants, and she says stuff like that the problem nowadays is that young people don't work or save etc. etc. etc.

First off, he said like he always does, that a lot of time it's just not worth it to talk to people from a certain generation, since they just don't get it and so there's no use even talking about it.

Second off, he was like, "If I was their generation, I would just be embarrassed," he was like. "It's like honestly, just shut up already and get out of the way."