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Almost one in three Pakistanis aged under 30 would like to take a job abroad, found a survey carried out by polling firm Gallup Pakistan and its nonprofit subsidiary the Gilani Foundation last June, before the floods struck.

That rose to above 50% among university-educated youth, said Bilal Gilani, executive director of Gallup Pakistan.

Tahir, the job-seeker in Canada, said his generation were worse off than their parents, who were able to buy real estate, make investments and create wealth in decades past.

“There’s disparity between needed to generate savings and wealth, to sustain a family and good lifestyle independently,” he said during a WhatsApp call.

More than a year of double-digit inflation has put a further squeeze buy phone number list on living standards, said one 33-year-old woman, who worked two jobs before leaving for Britain on a one-year student visa four months ago.

“I just cannot afford to live in Pakistan anymore,” she said, asking not to be named.

While in Pakistan, all her living expenses were taken care of by her parents, but increasingly she felt she was a burden on them, and is currently supplementing her savings with a part-time supermarket job in Britain.

“I feel I made a 100% right decision in leaving the toxic cycle I was in,” she added.

Another young worker, a freelance filmmaker, said he had left Pakistan for the Gulf due to frustrations over widespread corruption and payment delays that made it difficult to progress or do business.

Since arriving in Dubai two months ago, he has already found work in his field which “pays better and on time”.

“In Pakistan, payments were excruciatingly delayed with the last installment often remaining unsettled,” he said in a voice message, asking to speak on condition of anonymity.