Maybe social media has something to do with it. Nobody wants to be seen in a run down starter house or sharing a "Crib" with someone else in their TikTok or Instagram video.
I'm much like you. Me and the Mrs have always been scrimpers and savers and always living well below our means. It worked out for us.
Social media for Gen Z is full of get rich quick schemes, lol. Basically they are told don't go to college, don't work hard, buy some bitcoin and listen to Andrew Tate and the super models will be at mom's door asking how to get down to the basement.
It is actually very sad...it is why most Gen Z women are not dating Gen Z men.
That said, for those doing the right thing, they should still have options. I graduated RU as the economy was on the precipice of the worst crisis of our lifetimes, and i know what my generation went through (and still is short the money we should have had). So i am definitely sympathetic to costs ATM.
