Sunday Times article... the writer says because of house price and school fees rises to afford what his parents could afford you now when in your 20s have to make stark choices - City well paid job, City partner, IB etc - fine you can emulate that life. Other jobs, GP etc, not fine. I'm not sure there really is that change. I think it was always so - the child who became a teacher, actor, vicar would always have been different in terms of income and life from those who went into the City.
"My father, a respected country-based architect, somehow managed to put his four sons through private education. One is now a partner in a venture capital firm; another is co-founder of Lombok, a furniture retailer with a turnover of about £15m a year; another is a highly skilled Shropshire-based cabinet maker; and as for myself, the oldest son, ?wordsmith? seems best to describe the translating, writing and language teaching that have occupied me in Paris, Rome and London over the past decade or so.
Of these four brothers, all of equal talent but of quite different character, two are or soon will be rich or very rich. The other two are penniless.
As an unmarried and badly paid knowledge worker, I live in a rented room in Hammersmith and have no hope of ever buying a home anywhere. Indeed, when I return to the agreeable parts of central London that I know so well from earlier periods of my life, I realise that I am looking at the attractive stucco houses in just the same way that a tramp looks through a restaurant window at a group of people enjoying a carefree meal. I am effectively an exile in the city where I was born. "
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article1719509.ece