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I get in squabbles all the time with younger people and those who enable them that life is so much tougher now that days gone by when in fact it is the exact opposite. My dad's time as a whole was tougher than mine and his dad's was tougher than his. As for people complaining about housing costs they always bounce up and down. Here is a good example of affordability right now with no job skills in California.
You can get a fairly decent looking 3br2ba home on it's own lot for $150k with city utilities. That is a normal stick built house on a foundation, not a mobile or manufactured home. In 2 weeks about 20 miles away in Barstow the dozen or so fast food joints have to pay $20 an hour. There are also chain grocery stores in that town that at are unionized.
The thing I see is these older gen Z people don't want to live like a poor person starting out on their own, they want the life they had living with their parents and most would never dream of moving out of the high rent district.
When it gets here I will go to fiber internet. Right now my cell phone, internet, TV, and radio costs a grand total of $60 a month. Half of that is the satellite radio. The new cash price for my smart phone I also needed to use as an internet hotspot was $85.
How many of these 20 somethings that say they can't afford to move out would be willing to "survive" on only $60 a month for what I just listed?
As for things being easier there are so many modern conveniences that save an insane amount of time. The problem is too many people waste that saved time and also with technological advancements many ways to find distractions that did not exist in the past.
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