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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an older millenial (34) and DH is 31. We lived cheaply with roommates for years in a very divey transitional neighborhood. We buckled down and paid of his high interest law school loans (we had no ugrad loans thankfully).

We bought our first house 6 years ago for just under 300k in an outer burb. We have a mortgage payment we can afford and our house is too small for our family of now 3. We had no help from parents for a downpayment, though many of my 40something Gen X friends had downpayment help, or were able to buy homes at a time that prices were more in line with income. So they are in a tony school district now and we are not.

As a millennial who has done everything right (saved, paid loans, works hard), I find it really rude that older people who truly did not have the same unfortunate economy as they were coming of age are so callous about how millennials live. Baby boomers fucked us all, Gen exers haven't helped either and now we are stuck with a baby boomer run government with Gen X chomping at the bit to take the reins and we will just be left here, hoping like hell that the retirement savings we are scrimping to put away are still there in 50 years. Because we will all surely be working until we are 80. Just remember that when you are retiring at 65 and shitting on us for wanting a work life balance. We know we have 20 plus more years of the working grind than you will have. [/quote]

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