"The Millennial generation is the most environmentally conscious of all age groups and this influences their buying habits significantly."
"The Millennial Generation has graduated college and entered the workforce in the middle of the Great Recession. In fact, most economic studies would indicate this generation is entering one of the worst working environments in modern history burdened with more student loans than ever."
"Economic forces (housing bubble, student debt, shrinking of the middle class) and generational preferences (the environment, social justice) have resulted in a generation distrusting of large corporations and ?the 1%? who run them."
"There is growing evidence that the Millennial Generation is ?delaying adulthood.? At least, they are delaying adulthood as defined by economists (getting married, buying homes and cars, having children). Researchers point out that marriage is important to Millennials, they just want to do it later?the same with parenthood."
full article here: http://www.becomingminimalist.com/millennials/
These few quotes speak to me and I see it happening everywhere. Lots of people my age (20s) are like this and I feel like the thoughts about life differ from people in the millennial generation to the baby boomer generation. For example, I can't imagine having kids til I'm in my 30s and to my mom, having kids at 25 is ideal.
I feel like the prices of everything is stopping us from following in our parents' footsteps. I can't afford what they can and I certainly can't buy food for what they could. Things change and I feel like prices are more expensive than they ever have been. I can't rent an apartment in my city for under 1k/month and freaking ramen isn't even under a dollar anymore. I just feel like there is no end to the prices rising and eventually things will crash because nobody could afford the high prices. Just the other day, my mom and I went out shopping for clothes and she almost bought a pair of jeans for $120. I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw the price tag.
Houses are so expensive in my city that we literally made $375k more on our house than what we bought it for. We've lived here for 10 years. My other house sold for only $25k more and we lived there the same amount of time.
Of course this isn't EVERYONE but I feel like it's most and it's happening beyond my eyes, at least around where I live. I dunno, I felt I should rant and see if other people are experiencing the same thing. In my generation, I feel like everyone is just trying to get by and can't afford ****. I also feel like the good jobs baby boomers had access to no longer exist now. My dad for example, makes lots of money and his job didn't need college or uni. That just doesn't exist anymore and even WITH education, it's STILL hard to get a job.
I feel like I'll be struggling with money forever tbh. I dunno, this thread is a mess, sorry.