Do you think money is harder for us then it was for our parents?

[jennifer_bloom]

My parents bought our house 20 years ago and now it’s worth 5 times more than what they paid for it, but they bought it with two elite pay cheques and lots of investments from previous years. So if I want the exact same lifestyle as my parents as a single person, I would have to earn 10 times more money than either one of my parents at the time I move out to buy my own property. I believe this is possible, but not sure it’s possible within the next year or so.

[jamesgoldman]

My parents were broke and frankly still are given they have one had investments, both only have state incomes and one of them has outstanding debts

Meanwhile I'm debt-free, starting to look at investments and actively refuse the state income I'm allowed to claim

For me money is easy, it's one of few things I really understand from history to present day even ideas about what may happen in the future

[malwins4]

Wdut money is easy 4 u

[LiamJHayden]

Housing costs over the past generation in many areas have far outstripped the increases in wages and salaries.

[Curious_teen07]

No. The currency values may have changed, but the prices now were the equivalent of the ones then. It was just as harder to earn the money.

[Dinklex3]

I think each generation has their own difficulties.

I know my mom and dad worked hard for what they have.

[exitseven]

I make a lot more money than my father did but everything is a lot more expensive too. i think maybe my father had it s little easier,

[AnusNdaPainus]

No our parents down play how hard they actually worked

I know a lot of people who say their fathers were only home long enough to eat , sleep and impregnate their wives

[smilelots]

It is now made mostly out of plastic so yes and the ones and $2 are very hard made of metal lol

[DiegoO]

I definitely think so. Ad to that the environmental and ecological crisis.

[Jolzie75]

It has been much harder for me than my parents because times has changed.

[YesToLife]

I agree inflation is like crazy these days...

[Anonymous]

5 times in 20years it's not a big deal...
Below average returns...