This had to be said ... Cause people always complain that we have it easy in this generation... It's not! It's even more difficult! The competition for everything has become ten times more than your times. It is extremely difficult to make a mark right now, cause people always give attention to stupid people and not the real talented /clever /hardworking people. But it's just human tendency to complain about the younger generation , cause I'm pretty sure the people older than that generation also complained about them and it just how it goes on.

I see a lot of comments stating that millennials are the problem. Please can I point out that children learn from their parents actions, whether it be work, love or how they spoil the kids (to keep them out of their hair after a long work day). Please don't say nothing wrong was done. If you give your child everything they ask for (demand) then expect them to be the same when they are adults. It's the only way they know. But more to point the rest of us that were brought up with the wooden spoon are still struggling. I am 26, definitely do not have a house purchase in the near future, am almost finished with my student loan payments and currently earn the same as my mother did 15 years ago, when a house was a tenth of todays cost. In my life time bread went up 400%, milk 300%. I go to the shops for healthy food for lunch for a week and spend as much as my parents did for a weeks groceries and supplies. I come out with a bag in my hand, I remember having to use a trolley to carry it.

The Baby Boomer Generation are the ones ruining everything. They bought that house for $70k and sold it for $250k. Now they are the ones that welcomed the "Walmartization" of our economy because they could buy s**t cheaper. Only that cheap s**t costs American jobs. in 1970 General Motors was the nation's largest employer paying middle class wages, now it's Walmart which teaches it's underpaid employees how to take advantage of government subsidies. Who's fault is that? Not the 25 year olds, or even the 40 y/o's.

I mean...me personally, I'm pretty lucky and fine. I can save some money, I have one job I'm super grateful for, I can get some sleep. I'm very privileged, I'm aware of it. But I feel that in some ways I'm lucky to live in the Czech Republic because even if I wasn't that privileged just as many people aren't, I'd still wouldn't have to worry about the huge debt to be able to study at college and I wouldn't have to be anxious about my healthcare not being provided because I can't afford it.

Just a simple everyday situation in Hungary. Where my teacher parents barely can make a living and I clean in Italy, earning 4 times more than the two of them together.

Can we just stopping separating people through categories and stereotypes? We're all people trying to make ourselves happy (whether we realise it or not). Everyone is an individual with different experiences. The generation you belong to doesn't change that.

I won't say I know what were the life and struggles of other people, or blame all of them for a precise situation, but as a millenial, I'm tired hearing all the time that my generation (cause, of course, we are all the same...) is pitiful.

Meh, the older generation always blames the younger generation. It's just how humans be. That said, the baby boomers sure as s**t didn't save us from the Nazi's nor bring on the industrial revolution or any of that good stuff. Nah, we just inherit a rapidly deteriorating environment and card board boxes for houses.

I am on the fence I think it is a controversial topic

Its the Corporations and the Government whom have Created Your Plight ! Being upset at the average American is not right .. Put your Anger on the Places you Work and Shop ! Those are the GREEDY Mother F*****s you should be Angry at ! Those are the ones making your lives harder ! Those are the ones who make $100,000,000,000 every month ! Those are the ones who don`t give a rats a*s about you or your suffering ! Boycott Boycott Boycott or continue to Suffer !

The median price for a house in the US is $207,600, not $440k.

There's a big difference between California and the rest of the states/world. In some places owning homes and paying bills is affordable for millennials. Of course housing prices have gone up, but not by 7000%

In France,there is difference between the generations. My grand mother had it hard, the war, the rationing, the housing crisis during the Rebuilding. My grand dad had sometimes 3 jobs. But my mother generation had all the fun, all the social advantages from the "30 Glorieuses" and May 1968, full employment, retirement. My father worked hard at the factory, but he never stayed enumployed more than 3 days. We lost a lot of the social progress and this is going on. We will not have the same advantages/protections on the work field, the public health care is a mess with people working in desatrous conditions, eduction system doesn't allow the social climbing it offered by the past... plus the energetic and environmental choices that were made by people who won't face the consequences. My family is OK, we're in a better situation than most. But I'm not blind, and youngs are strugling and working hard but not with the same reward than our parents had.

The problem here is that the author thinks life is fair. It's not. Is it fair some generations were lost to war? Is it fair some people grow up in extreme poverty with no access to clean water or medicine? Cowboy up; life isn't fair never will be and your complaining is self defeating. Built in excuses so you can b***h about why others are happier than you.

You are feeling the effects of rising income inequality. Prices trend towards the average income/wealth and as the spread between the quintiles increases the rising average does not favor the bottom two-thirds. (Because the distribution is skewed towards the rich; fewer in number but disproportionately more income/wealth.)

How about I put this discussion to rest? There is something we all share as human beings. And you not what it is? It's psychology. My generation has a higher rate of mental problems then ever before. Now nobody is saying that the previous generations didn't suffered or struggled. But that strength comes from mental health (nd physical health). And I don't think I need to explain the stress level, nd the depression , nd drug problems of my generation, to name a few. Sure u could argue that facilities for our generation has soured drastically. The internet, new age cell phones, new gadgets, medicine etc have made life Soo easier. And yes it is true. But the tools with which you fight the odds in life are far less. The natural resources are draining, population has sky rocketed, trust between people is virtually non existent. The Earth is going to hell. The only thing that is going to help is if population goes down.

It is a different time. The cost of life is too expensive more most folks young and old. Something has to be done with this runaway profit and greed.

Well, in Australia getting a house is a real problem. Recent uni graduates have to work 2 jobs now just to pay one for the rent, and the other for the other expenses, foos et al. Housing is expensive here. Where I live in the suburbs which is 30 mins by train to the CBD the house at the back sold for $1.2 million AU, and the one on the opposite side of the road and down 4 houses went for $1.6million. I don't know how young ones get in the market because they would need a sizeable deposit. The up side is we have free health care, and there are extensive govt benefits for those in need. I know that in coming years the govt is starting to reel them in, as they have have been wildly abused over the years so they are being tighten for those in need, rather than those that just stay on them in definitely for no reason

im 38, have a degree and can't get a job, i have £40k in debt and can't have kids as we cant afford it, husband works, I'm looking for a job but apparently i don't have enough experience or that i don't meet business needs, i don't drink or smoke and haven't had a holiday in ever, millennial, you really need some perspective, i love it when i see people on the dole and they have kids and a car and holidays, they can't even read or write and they get everything.

I struggled with two kids, as a divorce parent. I couldn't afford a phone or a tv for my kids, rode the bus because I couldn't afford a car, washed my kids clothes by hand because I couldn't afford the laundromat. I had to go for food boxes on the last week of the month. I went to a community college for an education, which allowed me to take us of a dire situation. Is called sacrifice, anything worthwhile requires struggle.

grammatical nightmare.

Ummm, did you ever stop to think the fault lies with government policies that have only served to increase the cost of EVERYTHING? The house I grew up in had virtually no cost associated with permits and fees. Take a look at that new $400k house you mention and dig deep to see how much of the cost goes to some government agency before a single dirt clog is moved to begin construction. Don't like the price of gasoline? Take a look at how much goes up in taxes. Oh, sorry, you ride a bike so gasoline prices don't matter to you. Sorry, someone else is paying gas taxes so you can peddle your butt down the road in a bike lane. And while you are whining, take a look at your spending habits. You happily pay several dollars for a cup of Joe while my dad used to pay 25 cents and get free refills. Student debt? You're the one who bought the sales pitch and signed up for it. It's been said a million different ways but guess what? In the end you play the hand you are dealt.

the catch is... don't live in a place (state) with a higher cost of living.... (of course then most salaries will be low also)....

Each generation has struggles. All kinds of different struggles. It's how you deal with it. It's how much you want to work hard and 'suck it up'. I'm in my late 40s and dealt with a lot of cr@p over the years. Married, always multiple jobs. 3 kids. Yes, student loans. Lots of student loans. I'm finally reaching a point where I think we're getting a grip on it. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm doing what I need to do to follow my dreams and goals.

The problem is when people generalize- despite that there are many a*****e millennials out there. There are also good ones too, and despite what we may think logically, not everyone who works hard and is well educated gets a home/or makes a living, even if we do all the right steps. If we work hard and need the money and make wise choices... is it fair that we get by? Of course it's fair. But life doesn't work that way, life is not fair. If it were as simple as do x and y and z we'd all get by.

There is unquestionably more opportunity for current generations than any before it. You know why? The internet. You can do anything you want to do as long as you're willing to work hard. One of the problems people like this have is that they are comparing what people had later in life versus what people have early in life now. Our parents weren't as consumeristic as us. They lived much simpler lives.

The person who bought the house on a single income very likely has rich parents who gave him a job in the family company straight out of college.

Lets put it like this: I would take 17 years for me to pay for a 1 bedroom apartment, investing half my paycheck. It took 2 and a half years for my mother to buy a 2 bedroom apartment, with a salary of a secretary, investing half her paycheck. Yes, those were another times with other problems, but housing wasn't one of them.

The contradiction at the end is really rude. Sounds like those folks have great paying jobs, and that's a huge exception to an economic condition that can't be ignored.

How about we all agree that everything is s****y all the time, grab a pizza and watch some leave it to beaver?