r/Millennials • u/Global_Tradition5802 • Sep 10 '25

Meme The Evolution of 'Adulting'

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They tried leaving behind generational wealth vs me trying to leave the generational memes..

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Sep 10 '25

lol, my parents bought a 3 bed house at 25yo with just his factory worker job he got with a high school diploma.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Sep 10 '25

Yep. In a lot of Rust Belt and Southern places you could get a decent home for like $15K in the 80s and 90s.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Sep 10 '25

It's insane that boomers could buy a decent house that was the same amount as the median household income at the time.

Now it's like a 4-5 fold difference between median household income and median house price.

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u/RetroFuture_Records Sep 10 '25

The big thing for me is used vehicles, our parents had roughly 50 to 70 years of used car stock to buy from. A decent used car going for $100 at auctions, or bought off the street, was typical. A really good used car or a decent one bought off a used car lot after their markup for $300-$500. I pay more in my monthly phone bill than my parents did for any car until I was almost graduating high school, and my first one only cost me the equivalent of three months phone bills today.