The friend who gives advice from a different life may be answering a question you cannot afford to ask.

Advice from someone whose life differs sharply from yours can be useless and can also be the only honest answer available. They may be replying to the question you have stopped asking because you assume it is out of reach: whether you could leave, change, refuse, start over. Their different constraints let them say it.

So do not discard it immediately on the grounds that they do not understand your situation, which is often true and not the whole story. Ask what part of it could apply at a tenth of the scale. Sometimes nothing does. Sometimes the value was in hearing the unaffordable option said aloud by somebody.