I agree. All I could think while reading this was how this is considered an aspirational goal for some people in the current generation. It made me shudder to think that our ambitions have shrunk so low. Affordable housing is certainly a major problem but if this is the solution that we’re moving towards then I don’t even want to know what’s going to happen to the next generation.

Another observation: millennials now outnumber boomers.The older generation can't hold them back anymore. Millennials can vote into existence the policies, priorities and lives they want. From here on, the USA is a reflection of them and their values. It's all on them now.

Reminders like these are bittersweet for me. I'm torn between the optimism of voting in politicians who will improve the place I live, and the cynicism in knowing most people wielding power are still the generation who brought this situation into being and who will fight to maintain it. I can't see change happening until they are well and truly long gone.

You don't seem to be getting it. If your generation's attitude is defeatist, then it's your defeatism that will shape the character of the country.

In the words of Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Of course not, not as long as boomers are more effective propagandists and control more of the media, corporations, and public offices that matter.

The post-war period was a (relatively) long period of economic expansion. How things are now reflect a period of stability; a few generations before (~ a hundred years ago), things weren't so great, either.

London is a particularly dense and crowded city, so it's (unfortunately) expected to be particularly expensive.

Judging by the jaw-dropping number of people pouring over the border as we speak (shocking video available via alternative news sources), this is going to get much much worse yet. US GDP per capita will plummet, and living standards must follow.

> "When the older generations were her age a few decades ago..."

Yeah, a few decades ago in the economic boom the United States undeservedly enjoyed after the rest of the world powers were devastated by WW2 and tens of millions of human beings lay dead. The "older generations" outside the US jolly well were not "getting cheap educations, building big houses, buying summer cabins, investment apartments, multiple new cars, having multiple kids", etc.; they had to trudge a long, hard road to rebuild their homes and livelihoods and recover from the scars of war.

This idea that the current generation has some sort of inalienable right to do as well as previous generations is bizarre. Even a moment of thought would tell you that no such thing exists.

The spoils of war going to the conquerers is this quaint concept from history class; something that took down the Roman Empire two millennia ago. It's not supposed to be a lesson on why Millennial are getting the short end of the stick.

> This idea that the current generation has some sort of inalienable right to do as well as previous generations is bizarre.

I don't assume this applies to those who genuinely "broke a cycle" and that might have been the norm long before the post-modern era.