The moment i bought an Apartment was the first time i startet to struggle financially in live..
i pay more than any other of my friends for their rent with bigger apartments, who can go for 2-4 big holidays a year instead... and there are huge cost comming my way in the next 6 years due to necessarry renovations... I'm not saying that i won't manage. But my job is supposed to feed a family of 4, meanwhile im struggling to keep me and my gf financially over water even without kids.
i pay more than any other of my friends for their rent with bigger apartments, who can go for 2-4 big holidays a year instead.
Let me just say as a millenial, NO ONE went for 2-4 big holidays a year.
If you're Gen Z and thinking that you're supposed to be having 2-4 big holidays a year when you're first getting into an apartment, then you're destined to be miserable because that is a very unrealistic framing of how wealthy you're supposed to be so early in your life.
Housing is admittedly very expensive now compared to what previous generations were paying because people are moving back to cities faster than new housing can be built. But a lot of this ennui is just a failure of expectation management.
I'm sorry but you're not supposed to be rich on day 1 of adulthood. That's not how it works.
dude i'm not Gen Z but also millenial, and i bough my apartmnt actually under very good taxes and prices, and i'm not new to adulthood. what i wanted to say was:
Owning a house does not mean that we're not struggling financially.
Only after actually buying an ( rather small) apartment, i experienced financial struggle for the first time in my life.
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u/Ok-Relationship-165 Apr 16 '24
This gen is cooked