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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Another Gen X-er here... this was before my time, too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

not so much crying. just profuse sweating, dreams of falling, freezing cold or getting burned or just waiting in an afterlife room like beetlejuice, or punching the air and the pillows

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Gen X here. Couldn’t buy a house until I was 35.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm 41 and we are two families crammed into one house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My next door neighbors are in the same situation

[–] Cruxifux 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Millennial here. Over half of my friends will never own a house. And we are in the cheapest part of Canada to buy houses in.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well. At least we both will never get to retire!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Spent all of my retirement savings to buy 1/4 of a house that will take 30 years to pay off. If I'm lucky I can start saving again when I'm 65.

[–] Cruxifux 3 points 11 months ago

I work union. I will be able to retire. But only because I work for a union.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a millennial but I was gonna say this meme would be more appropriate if you replaced millennial with Gen X, you guys got the shit end of the stuck just like the rest of us unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They got more affordable housing than we did though. Young millennials have to deal with $500K+ houses, but genX had $100-200K houses throughout the 90s and early 00s during a booming economy.

Nothing like boomers though, with their cheap ass sub $100K houses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no genx community on Lemmy and the sub was interesting. Does anyone want to make a community for it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would take effort. Does anyone from GenX really wanna do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dammit, would it be wrong for this millennial to make it the?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do it. We all watched Field of Dreams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I was wrong. It exists, my instance jus hadn't federated with it yet. I should have checked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Will do. Unfortunately my instance temporarily blocked immunity creation and I don't want more centralization on Lemmy.world I kind of like the idea of genx being on sh.itjust.works so I'll just wait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

As someone in that weird space of end GenX/too early to be Millennial, I support you.

[–] realbaconator 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] PlasmaRiver 1 points 11 months ago

Would be less painful if rents were affordable. I wouldn't even consider owning if rent was controlled in the UK. The market sucks at rent control

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We zoomers are no little kids to you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know! You're voting and shit and actively taking part in kicking societal norms in the junk. As a millenial I'm ~~sooting~~ rooting for you to keep it up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

People still talking about Zoomers like they're children while the oldest of gen Alpha are 13.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes, but it happens very rarely. The last time was from an unrequited love

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 11 months ago

Sucks that she didn't love you back, but it was nice of her to still get you a good deal on the condo 🤷

[–] onionbaggage 2 points 11 months ago

There was one beautiful shining moment 2009-2012. If you didn't get in then God help you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I cry in the day time, too.

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