An emergency fund for emergencies. Save up for new tires for your car when they go flat on the highway. Medical bills for when you get injured and put out of work for a week. For when your water main gets clogged from all that bacon grease you pour down the sink, and you have to pay $2,000 to get the pipes dug up and cleaned out.

Save for a better future where you can own a house and some land. Save up to travel somewhere you've never been so you can learn about a different culture and better help how you think about the world. There's an endless list of beneficial things you can do with money if you actually save it up instead of short-sightedly spending every paycheck you get right as it hits your bank account.

Don't buy a median house or move somewhere else then.

Here I often hear of people move to London "for the jobs" complaining they can't afford a house and they are working retail. Just move, you can get a retail job anywhere.