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> The biggest group of tenants breaking leases in San Francisco are Generation Z workers, those between the ages of 18 to 25 years old Since when did people bo

• perl4ever 6y ago
  According to some, that's right around the border between millennials and whatever comes afterwards. The Wikipedia article on millennials says 1981 to 1996 is a "widely accepted" range of birth dates. The supporting reference[0] doesn't seem that authoritative, but it might be kind of self-fulfilling.[1] [0]https://web.archive.org/web/20190313195431/http://te.tbr.fun/generation-next/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190313195431/http://te.tbr.fun... [1]https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/
• blululu 6y ago
  That's somewhere on the border. But really, this is more a matter of blaming the youngest generation for every problem that besets the older ones. Gen X are a bunch of nihilistic latch key kids, Millennials destroyed every industry but online retail and avocado farming, and now we can blame gen-z for breaking lease agreements while scrolling through their tik-toks. Of all the statistical screw ups in this article, getting the age range of gen-z off by a few years seems mild.
  • _jal 6y ago
    Well, they're also less likely to have much savings, more likely to have a service job that doesn't currently exist, and more likely to still have the option to go to stay with the folks. I would expect young folks to be much more likely to break a lease than older folks. I do agree that generational nonsense has been pretty rich lately. -- Nihilist raised by the tee-vee