I have mixed feelings about this.
I was the same as the others here. I came into this manga thinking it was the story of how these two managed to make it after escaping the horrible situation they were in. There were parts of the story where it genuinely felt like that's where they were headed, that they'd carve out a home in a small community away from the hectic chaos of city life despite the difficulties. Until it wasn't that anymore.
I really appreciate the bleak realism portrayed here. It's sad to think about, but this is how it is for a lot of us. My personal work life is doing well, but even I dream of escaping somewhere rural where every day isn't just corporate work. But you just know it won't work unless you get incredibly lucky. What a depressing wake up call.
Haaaaaaahhhh. I guess, just wishing the best for all the corporate slaves in the world. Hopefully even a few of us manage to get a Stardew Valley ending instead of a Throw Away the Suit Together ending.
When my ex-wife and I got married, we took our honeymoon in a little resort town in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Kind of place with snow on the ground 7 months out of the year. We completely fell in love with the place, and started talking about how great it would be to move there.
Several of the locals told us "If you don't already have a job here, don't bother moving here. And there aren't that many jobs in a town with a population of 2200." Seems that we weren't the only ones who had fallen in love with the place, and the town's history was littered with people who'd moved there and couldn't make it work and had to move back wherever they came from.
We ended up staying put where we were.