Snowflakes, Millennials And Baby Boomers.

[Coppit]

Seeing this headline:-

More than half of millennials aged 25 to 35 claim to be suffering from a 'quarter-life crisis' over job and money woes

I thought it's about time I found out what age ranges / dates these terms refer to as I always assumed millennials referred to people born 2000 and after.

[douglas9401]

I see my error now. Youth has a right to spend like a drunken sailor and then have sympathy poured upon them because of how unfair life is in not giving it all back along with an apology for expecting them to live at least somewhere close to their means.

What was I thinking?

[douglas9401]

Profligate youth then. Hope that helps.

[Garaman]

Just because oldies used to get drunk, and many still do, they assume millennials do too.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/25/millennials-dont-get-drunk-older-generation-did/

[misscherry]

I don't know any millennials who drive brand new cars, buy expensive phones or designer clothes, have an Alexa or "prosecco on tap". What bizarre claims. Most of my millennial friends aren't well-off at all.

[misscherry]

And they therefore live within their means, I mean.

[douglas9401]

Just because you don't know any doesn't make something 'bizarre' misscherry, for all we know you live on a kibbutz or in a camp in the forest, separated from the real world.

[ummmm]

My kids live within their means. None of them have debts, no mortgages, no credit cards, no loans. I think Douglas is doing our younger generation a disservice.

[misscherry]

Well then let me assure you I don't. How many other people in this thread are basing their claims on actual millennials they know and not some nonsense they read in the Daily Fail?

[misscherry]

I think so too, ummmm.

[douglas9401]

That's to their and your credit ummmm, but a few family members is not a generation.

I'm off to but myself a 52" telly now to cheer myself up. I deserve a treat.

[Garaman]

Get smashed while you are at it, Douglas, like the rest of your generation.

[rowanwitch]

The one thing we didn't have to deal with was tuition fees, at the very time you start earning enough to think about getting on the property ladder the repayment process starts. I still think the apparent need for luxury goods doesn't help. I remember buying a first home when the interest rates skyrocketed in the 1980s it was touch and go if we'd be able to keep it, we did. Just long enough for my OH at the time to leave so we had to sell it anyway.

[Cloverjo]

I don't think uni tuition fees are that big a deal. The repayments come out along with your tax so you hardly notice it really.

[Coppit]

A lot of sound, some fury - but no mention of snowflakes!