<prompt> Human: My partner and I are living together as teachers in South Korea. Shes 24 and Im 23. We left more or less as soon as I graduated she had been working for a year after college. Ive got about 35,000 in student loans and shes about 23,000We came with the bare minimum we needed to get by until our first paychecks, but we stand to have about 6,000 saved by the time we get home in 8 months. For me, thats budgeting for: drinks out 2-3 nights a week eating out 2-3 meals a week 400 toward student loans every month through Jan 2014 a 500 vacation to an island in Korea a 1,000 vacation to Japan 2,000 for traveling Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and AmsterdamAll fine and dandy right?Well, its not as easy as it sounds to keep at that budget. Im a fairly outgoing guy, and shes extremely sociable. Everyone were teaching here with has more money saved than us and no student loans. Theyre going out more, and seeing more places in Korea than us. We love to travel definitely people that value experience over material goods and have had to turn down plenty of trip invitations already.This may sound very first world problems, but what can I say to my partner to convince her that we need to not bend to the peer pressure of the community around us? I am stressed that were not saving enough, but lately shes adopted this mentality of Well were only here once, what do I need 6,000 for anyway?Meanwhile, we both are planning to move back to the US with jobs that wont pay more than 35,000, even in NYC, we have no idea where we will be living or if well be even living together, and our parents are broker than us no support networkEDIT I just made a follow-up post here that poses a few more questions and should clarify a few things. Please respond! You guys are being extremely helpful and are making me reconsider my short term life plan entirely.  <response>: Pep Talk: Youre going to be poor as fuck for a long time unless you save money. 