https://archive.is/2023.04.17-212925/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/millennial-generation-financial-issues-income-homeowners/673485/
Incomes and wealth are not just objective numbers—there is a large element of perception involved in whether someone thinks they are doing well.
You are not poor, you just think you are.
I literally don't know anyone my age who's doing well, we're all barely afloat.
Many of my friends, all college graduates and employed, had to move back in with their parents this year.
Half are married and have double income with no kids and still can't make ends meet.
I know a few people that have bought houses recently, but they generally make six figure incomes or close to it, one has a Ph.D, another is a well paid nurse and is married to a MD. The only regular person I know who recently bought a house got a settlement check from a work accident that left him with some undetermined level of brain damage and the house is like a hour's drive from most stores.
I know some rich zoomers (not like mega-rich but definitely 1%) and it's all generational wealth of course, but even they're choosing to live with their parents rn :joker-troll: