I agree with this article. In America, the 90's were post-Berlin-Wall, feminist enough that you could at least work and make an ok wage as a woman, the web boom

I agree with this article. In America, the 90's were post-Berlin-Wall, feminist enough that you could at least work and make an ok wage as a woman, the web boom meant there were decent jobs available even if all you had was an English degree...and housing wasn't exorbitant. When I graduated college in NYC, a studio apartment in an unfashionable outer borough could be bought for $50,000. The same place is like $300 or $400k now. A beginning secretary at the time might make $35k. And there were studio apartments for sale in Inwood for probably $20k. So if you were willing to live very unglamorously, you could buy an apartment for less than one year's salary. There was a vibrancy and energy to the 90's. And we had the best of the web. We could research and find things out, but there wasn't this omnipresence of phones and social media. Life was still analogue.