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What vital task did you not realize someone was doing regularly until they suddenly stopped? (sh.itjust.works)

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Could be a partner, roommate, coworker, or somebody you volunteered with. They could have stopped for any reason from leaving, getting sick or hurt or even dying to just getting sick of doing that one thing and stopping.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You can say that to genX, but the bulk of genX's kids are adults now (at least genX women aren't having many more). We did have it easy. We got houses at prices that had only doubled in price in the time it took to raise a deposit. I bought my place for about $150k including the upgrades in 2001. The same place in worse condition now is worth 500k. The person I bought it off paid 67K in 1997

I dropped out of uni and stepped straight into an IT job

I met a partner through social contacts, a friend paired up with someone in their dancing club.

But Millennials (probably your parents if they're under 45) had it just as bad as you, but they didn't have iPads as babies

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They had it bad for sure but has the rate of decline really slowed?

Like sure buying a house is impossible, but shit that was a recession or 3 ago - and every single one has just pulled homeownership higher.

As easy as it is to say 'back in my day', I think its important to look at it numerically to avoid the mistakes of our ancestor's (since at least baby boomers, but realistically probably even longer)

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