Is true love unaffordable in Beijing?

Spring Festival may be the worst holiday for one of my friends, all because she has a "lousy" boyfriend. Every time she goes home, her parents nag her, trying to talk her out of the relationship.

I think her boyfriend is not "lousy" at all. He is sweet, reliable, good-looking and the most important thing is they are in love and they've been together for four years.

But clearly, my friend's relatives have a different evaluation standard. Compared with my friend, who is an elite university postgraduate, her boyfriend only graduates from a common university. Though he has a job in Beijing, his salary each month is not enough to afford to buy one-sixth of a sq m in the city. What is worse, his parents are both laid-off workers who definitely cannot offer any financial help when the couple ties the knot in the future.