The recission was ****ty for all of us
The late 2000s/early 2010s recessionary period was lousy for a lot of people.
I managed to survive it.
In the paragraph that you quoted, I did not talk about my own struggles during that period. They were bad. I don't want to talk about them right now.
I have sympathy for the 1981-1987 young adults of the that recessionary period because it did set a lot of us back big time.
I'm in suburban Delaware.
Off the top of my head I can only think of 3 women in recent memory that had their own place. I just think it's more a byproduct of the job market being trash than it is everything else being expensive.
Delaware is a part of the Northeastern USA. The Northeastern USA as a whole is expensive. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC are known to be expensive cities. People leave the Northeastern for Southern parts of the USA because they are somewhat less expensive.
Delaware is a bit overlooked in that region because of its small size. Delaware sits in the shadow of bigger cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC. The better opportunities in that region go to those bigger cities.
There are parts of the USA that don't have a strong local economy regardless of national/global economic conditions. Delaware might be a place that has a weak local economy in general. There might not be a lot of opportunity there. I could buy the idea that Delaware's local job is trash.
In Dallas, Texas, most of the single women have their own places in the more desirable neighborhoods of Central Dallas.
There's a bit of a look that goes along with professional white-collar employment.
The key here is to give out the weekend warrior corporate vibe or just have a life/personality. If you put out the boring safe beta male corporate vibe then you will struggle like every other boring safe beta male in any industry.
Your response is good. If you have an interesting personality as a white collar worker, it's possible that women will have less expectations on your SMV to be employed. I still think that if you look white collar, women are going to have the expectation that you're employed and going to judge more of your SMV on your job. Having interesting hobbies outside of work can help reduce that burden so you and I are somewhat aligned on ideology here.