HEYGOW ASMR

Mortgage & marriage pressure

11 phrases
HD
shǒu fù tāo kōng liù gè qián bāo, wǒ zhè bèi zi suàn shì mài gěi yín háng le.
首付掏空六个钱包,我这辈子算是卖给银行了。
ENThe down payment drained all six family wallets — I've basically sold my whole life to the bank.
HD
fáng nú bù gǎn cí zhí, duàn gōng bǐ shī yè hái kě pà.
房奴不敢辞职,断供比失业还可怕。
ENAs a mortgage slave I don't dare quit — defaulting on the loan scares me more than being jobless.
HD
xiāo fèi jiàng jí dào jí zhì, wǒ lián nǎi chá dōu jiè le.
消费降级到极致,我连奶茶都戒了。
ENDowngrading my spending to the max — I've even given up bubble tea.
HD
tiān jià cǎi lǐ yì kāi kǒu, wǒ zhí jiē yuán dì kǒng hūn.
天价彩礼一开口,我直接原地恐婚。
ENThe moment they named the sky-high bride price, I developed instant marriage phobia.
HD
méi fáng jiù bié tán jié hūn, zhàng mu niáng de gāng xū wǒ zhēn gěi bù qǐ.
没房就别谈结婚,丈母娘的刚需我真给不起。
ENNo flat, no marriage talk — my future mother-in-law's must-have apartment is something I just can't provide.
HD
yuè guāng jiā fù zhài, wǒ de qián bāo bǐ liǎn hái gān jìng.
月光加负债,我的钱包比脸还干净。
ENBroke by payday and in debt on top — my wallet is cleaner than my face.
HD
wǒ men bù guò shì dài gē de jiǔ cài, gē wán yì chá yòu zhǎng yì chá.
我们不过是待割的韭菜,割完一茬又长一茬。
ENWe're just leeks waiting to be harvested — cut one crop and another grows right back.
HD
xiāng qīn dì yī jù xiān wèn yǒu méi yǒu fáng, wǒ dāng chǎng shè sǐ.
相亲第一句先问有没有房,我当场社死。
ENThe very first question on the arranged date was 'do you own a flat' — I died of shame on the spot.
HD
bù shì bù xiǎng jié, shì zhēn de jié bù qǐ.
不是不想结,是真的结不起。
ENIt's not that I don't want to marry — I genuinely can't afford to.
HD
wǒ jiān dìng bù hūn zhǔ yì, zhì shǎo bù yòng yí gè rén káng liǎng gè rén de fáng dài.
我坚定不婚主义,至少不用一个人扛两个人的房贷。
ENI'm a committed no-marriage-er — at least I won't be one person shouldering a mortgage meant for two.
HD
luǒ hūn? zhè nián tóu zhàng mu niáng tīng le dōu xiǎng bào jǐng.
裸婚?这年头丈母娘听了都想报警。
ENMarry with no house or car? These days just saying it makes the mother-in-law want to call the cops.

This set is the money-property-marriage exhaustion of China's young people. After the property boom faded, many households were left carrying mortgages on flats that no longer rise in value — and marriage got tangled into it, because 'no apartment, no marriage' and sky-high 彩礼 still set the price of a life together. So they joke '首付掏空六个钱包,我这辈子算是卖给银行了' (the down payment drained all six family wallets, I've sold my life to the bank), '房奴不敢辞职,断供比失业还可怕' (mortgage slaves daren't quit — missing a payment scares us more than losing the job), and '没房就别谈结婚,丈母娘的刚需我真给不起' (no flat, no marriage talk — the mother-in-law's must-have is one I honestly can't afford). It's wry and half-resigned: 不是不想结,是真的结不起 — not that they don't want love, they just can't afford it.