I think there are two flawed assertions here. One is that the non-privileged can even afford to attempt what you're suggesting without putting themselves or the

I think there are two flawed assertions here. One is that the non-privileged can even afford to attempt what you're suggesting without putting themselves or their families at immediate risk. You cannot drop your two jobs in the city and take your kids out of kindergarten to drive off toward "cheap real estate" (which you also can't afford, anyway) in a car you may or may not have, using gas you also can't afford without a payday loan. If you can afford to make that kind of move, you're more privileged than many. If you can do it and it fails, can you afford to come back and try to re-start your previous city life? Then you're even more privileged than the first subset of people. Those living paycheck to paycheck can't just shove off for greener pastures in today's climate, period, and the few who can would prefer not to take the risk because failure is just too stressful. The second flawed assertion is that your generation has more money than your grandmother's generation. You might have more dollar bills in your bank account, but they're worth less than ever before and "Real Wages" for the lower and middle class have been flat or falling for decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-the-biggest-group-of-american-workers-wages-arent-just-flat-theyre-falling/?utm_term=.fdb615c8808e https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-t... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/25/america-wealthy-class-betrayed-inequality https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/25/americ... https://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2012/03/basics-real-wages-remain-below-their.html https://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2012/03/basics... Now, HN surely has a concentration of workers who live outside of this phenomenon and have experienced increasing wages and live upper-class lifestyles, but hardly true of today's "generations" as a whole.