1. Yissurin is when I put my hand into my pocket to take out three coins but only two came out.
2. Absolutely. Some of it began even before I had gotten married. And although I think I seem to be suffering less than some of my friends, there are others that seem to be suffering less than me. Even those things that are yisurin from wanting to live in E”Y are also included for me because the reason why I chose to live here is because it is more conducive to my learning.
3. If this is your comment than I suspect you missed the gist of the point I was trying to convey.
In addition, even if the son-in-law would be willing to live on bread and water himself, he cannot force this on his wife nor is it healthy to force this on his children and so his only choice to be be mashlich al Hashem yehavo.
4. I do not live in Yerushalayim now, but when I did during shana rishonah I lived in a box the size of your living room. My neighbor two doors down had one window near his door, one sink, 1 bedroom- with 2 kids. Someone I know living their now wasn’t even graced with a bedroom door, instead he uses a sheet to cover the doorway that splits his salon from his bedroom. If you get too hot while you are lounging on the “luxurious” two seater that he somehow fit, his freezer in arms reach where you might find an ice pop. I can go on.
I happen to know that any one of these people could go back to their countries of origin at any time. They are not tzionim. They only remain here because they are seeing more hatzlacha in their learning.
Please read my first post again to better understand the point I was trying to make about that joke.