# Are you enviable? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626 "2010-07-22T18:47:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/41 "2010-07-24T04:54:48Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Heh–this is the opposite of me. I no longer get to travel much at all (at least by the standards of what I’d like to do): the job, the house, the cats, the garden, the baby all tie me down even if the bank account didn’t. > > On the other hand, I’ve got a house, a job, healthy pets, a garden, a wonderful baby. > > I often envy folks who get to travel; I dream of moving to Denmark some day. I know it’ll never happen; I’m too tied to this place. And I’m okay with that. The grass is always greener, you know? Right now - and I know it’s based on my own current unstable situation - I am really envious of your situation. I just want a job that I go to every day, and a paycheck every two weeks and an apartment and also a new computer, [del]and maybe a pony[/del]. I’m actually beginning to wish I had never quit my job that I HATED WITH THE FIRE OF A MILLION SUNS to go live in Bulgaria, just because at least then I had an income and a place to live. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/42 "2010-07-24T05:19:20Z")
Probably not. But my life suits _me_, even as hard as it can be sometimes. Yes, a loving spouse would be a definite positive addition, but I’d rather be happily single than unhappily married. I love living in the country, can’t imagine anything else, and I’m sort of bewildered when other people say they’d hate it here. I love all my animals and I’m happy to spend the majority of my expendable income on them. I can imagine things I’d like to have - central heat and air, freedom from money worries - but there are very few people I envy. StG ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/43 "2010-07-25T06:18:12Z")
Absolutely not. I’ve described the bullshit I’ve went through in withdrawal as fitting the biblical descriptions of Hell. Technically, it’s worse, since they only get physical torment. The only people that I could think would envy me are people with a mental disorder that lasts longer than this is supposed to. And that’s only for the brief windows of relief I get. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/44 "2010-07-25T06:22:42Z")
I don’t know about my own life, but I’m rather surprised how many people live their lives with the singular goal of making others envious. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/45 "2010-07-25T07:35:13Z")
Probably not. Nobody WANTS to be richer than Bill Gates, or have 15 simultaneous model girlfriends. Amiright? ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/46 "2010-07-25T16:36:11Z")
I think so. I’m advancing in a career I enjoy (about 70% of the time) and make a six figure salary with insane retirement benefits. I live in a cute house with my outstanding boyfriend who loves cleaning up after me and treats me like a queen. I live in an area that many people come to visit as tourists for it’s beauty and romance. So yeah, right now at this moment my life is pretty damn enviable and I am so incredibly grateful for that. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/47 "2010-07-25T18:57:29Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Right now, I don’t think my life is enviable, because I’m unemployed and finding work is turning out to be an enormous pain and at the age of 32, I might have to go slum with my parents unless I find a job really soon. BAH. For this, I went to grad school? As someone who is underemployed (but at least I’m employed) and slumming with my parents, I hear you. Some of the folk in my knitting group envy me my confidence in my knitting skills and the amount of time I spend employing them, and I in turn envy them their husbands and children (which is why some don’t spend more time knitting). But things could be worse, even as they could be better, so I guess I’m enviable. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/48 "2010-07-26T02:35:46Z")
I think so. I’m sitting in the Ulaan Bataar airport right now. How cool is that? It hasn’t always been easy and I have traded in a lot of stability and companionship, but I’ve been living a life of adventure and it’s been good to me. My friends tell me “I wish I had time to travel, but I have too many responsibilities.” I tell them, “I wish I had time for responsibilities, but I have too much travel to do.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/49 "2010-07-26T03:28:43Z")
The only reason that people would envy me right now is that I’m debt-free. And that I live in a country with decent universal health care. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626/50 "2010-07-26T18:20:30Z")
Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-enviable/547626.md?page=2)