Are you better off than your parents at your age?

[rebekahwsd@lemmy.world]

Oh, no. Hella worse. They were solidly middle class with two solid careers at this point. And kids, but I don't want that part so that's a wash. But nicer house, nicer stuff entirely. But me and my husband are in a better place relationship wise so I got that over them??

[rbwells@lemmy.world]

Kind of? My dad died before he was my age and my mom told me "he died and I'd never had that much money in my life and all I wanted was him."

So financially I'm worse off than my mom was, but in other (and probably more important) ways, better off. And certainly better off than my dad.

[pantanopete@lemmy.zip]

Yeah, my parents were from a small village without reliable running water and toilets and I'm an computer microchip engineer that lives in a house I own with clean filtered water and a bidet.

[noel_skum@sh.itjust.works]

Mentally, yes. Financially, no.

[noobnarski@lemmy.world]

Financially maybe, my parents were probably still at university at my age.
They'd make more money than I do afterwards though.

And they had already found each other, while I've never even had one relationship yet.

[thewolfofsouthend@lemmygrad.ml]

Not financially, we used to go on holiday 3 weeks a year in a touring caravan, plus multiple weekends, in my teens we’d go skiing for a week. Based on that alone I’m not even in the same league.

[annafrankfurter@lemmy.ml]

Financially yes. I'm paying more in tax than my father earned when he was retiring. But socially not even close. We didn't have much growing up. So I just spent my time studying and all never really enjoyed any moment. The only "friends" I had were the people who hung around me so they could cheat off of me in exams. And the most cruelest part is growing up I always wanted fancy toys and other such stuff. But now I don't care about any of those. I thought if I earned more all the pain and suffering will go away but it is still there.........

[jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world]

No. Close, but no.

[Guest]

My parents had three kids and owned a 150 m² house in the countryside. I earn more than they used to and I'm renting a single room in a house with four flatmates.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Happier, maybe. My dad is an okay guy but they weren't happy together, my mom wanted out of the marriage for decades. Financially I'm so far behind, it's not even close.