This post was originally published on Gadgette on July 16, 2015
Last year, I read a truly bizarre survey from
the Office for National Statistics. The report, exploring the wellbeing of
young people in the UK, showed up glowing rates of happiness. Like,
suspiciously radioactive levels. Apparently, 8 out of 10 young people aged
16-24 reported high or very high life satisfaction. Staggeringly, only 1 in 10
young people in that age group were finding their financial situation difficult
or very difficult in 2011-12. And there was me thinking that all that graduate
debt, eternal internships and zero chance of ever buying a house had got the
lot of us down.
