The headline of this piece seems clickbaitey in a way.The article just seems to be several loosely correlated statistics. To me, being a evil lazy millennial,

The headline of this piece seems clickbaitey in a way.The article just seems to be several loosely correlated statistics. To me, being a evil lazy millennial, it sort of feels like we inherited a scorched and salted earth. We're trying to till the land to the best we can. But it's not working. On living with parents/home owners. I did that until 27 to save money. I then bought a house, as per my prior comments worst mistake in my life. It's not just me several of my friends, bought homes and are in a similar boat. The general wisdom I hear from people in my age range about owning a home is F that noise. As I've said it can work, but be smart on it. So due to rising real estate prices. What do you do stay with parents, room mates, or live pay check to pay check. Our living situation has changed drastically over the past several years. Jobs are centralizing in certain areas. While jobs leave another area. I can attest to companies leaving one area, killing a city. Continuing on that I feel we're in a fight or flight mode. There have been other articles about the increase of male suicides, burn out, increased therapy attendance, decrease in intimacy etc. I mean I didn't grow up in the 80s. But were there a plethora of articles like that at the time. We are not staying in one place long enough. A job is no longer a guarantee like it was. It's now you pay me enough to get by, my bills but that about it. So it sorta comes to do we dig in and fight for what we want. Or try and fly to some where better. Then we start life because of college with one sword over our head. Then we have dating, relationship and social dynamic changes. Technology has changed how we socialize and interact. Now we are no longer tied to just our group of friends. We can access anyone, a myriad of people. Dating has become almost a shopping experience. I've had a number of friends rattle off a list of ingredients they want out of their partner. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. Comparatively older love tales just seemed simpler. I've also seen more non monogamous relationships crop up. Which I'm still trying to determine if that's due to more relaxed social standards, the aforementioned, or I hang out with esoteric people. Moving to kids, I know a number of people. Who fall into the we don't want to raise kids in this world, finances, health, or I don't where I'll be 6 months from now. Doing the math for retirement on a 6 figure salary, home with 1k mortgage, and a wife. With an intent of one vacation a year, three date nights a month, and retirement savings. Kids didn't factor into the budget. I didn't grow up with many broken homes. But I had friends who did. My concern with marriage now is more the sue happy nature. I also feel like I live on a tectonic plate, and don't know which way it's going to shift next. I'm not crying that millennials have it difficult, or are overwhelmed. I just dislike these articles shifting blame solely on the younger generation. We are at an inflection point. Alot, alot has changed over the past two decades. Yet we're still trucking on with standards of living from several decades ago.