How anyone making $100k can be considered "poor" is beyond me.
No wonder everyone on the West coast thinks being a Millennial sucks.
It's just part and parcel of living where everyone else wants to live.
Another way to say that is "where the jobs are".
At least in my peer group people seem to be doing pretty well.
From my perspective here, Millennials aren't having any harder of a time integrating into society than anyone before them did.
I see the "jobs in places not SF or NYC" situation as kind of like how the people who spend MSRP minus $2k for a 5yo 4Runner feel the need to loudly proclaim how everything else is crap because they have this massive sunk cost they need to justify to themselves. All I know is my car starts every morning and I'm not making payments on it.
The main part of the documentary is a teacher who can't afford to live anywhere near the school that employs her. I think the cheapest rent was $3,500/month and she made 60K per year (?). I believe she worked in San Francisco but had to move to Oakland. She had to take multiple buses and then walk a few miles from the final stop. But in the end she found a place in San Francisco near her school which she could afford.
It also showed Google and other large companies with their private buses. There was a lot of conflict between average citizens and the "Google buses", at least in the video there was.