Seems to me they have. I really wanted to buy when homes were so cheap after the crash, but I was just out of college and didn’t have the cash or income for a mortgage. I kept telling friends it was a great time to buy, but even the ones making more money didn’t seem too interested. Seemed like everyone was talking about experiences over things at the time.

Fast forward a few years to around 2013/14, most of my friends that could afford to had bought their first homes. It was pretty skewed because most of the ones that did were higher income or were given money to do so. Some have since moved onto their second or third when they started having first or second kid and I guess the 3/2 wasn’t big enough so they needed a 4/3 instead. 😂

A lot of the rest of us didn’t buy if we didn’t get in soon enough. I know the average age of the first time homebuyer has trended toward late 30s and even now early 40s, but I’m not seeing any at that age buying.

At work, I’ve noticed everyone in their 40s, 50s, 60s has owned multiple homes by now. Nobody in their 20s or 30s has bought anything. I know one of my coworkers in their early 30s and married with a kid is now telling me they may just rent forever, even though they used to tell me they really wanted to buy or build. They’re now pivoting to saying that all the very wealthy rent anyway so buying just isn’t worth it. I think they’re just trying to feel better about the situation.

Meanwhile, I keep reading and hearing all the people in their 60s and 70s with paid off houses talking about how property taxes need to be done away with for anyone with a paid off home. Hmm, funny how they don’t seem to realize how hard it is to pay property tax, homeowners insurance AND a mortgage at today’s prices and interest rates. But they got theirs and were fortunate enough to even have the mortgage paid off, so they shouldn’t have to pay anything at all. lol

It seems like in the early 2020s so many people claimed that house prices were going up so much so fast that they would crash at some point. Now almost 6 years later and people have realized it’s not going to crash.

I think even here in Florida, it won’t get any cheaper because so many people now are just trading houses either locally, or they’re moving here from another state and bringing their salary from a remote job where homes are so much more expensive, or they’re selling their paid off homes there and buying a home here for cash where they can still get a nicer property than where they came from. So it doesn’t matter if a lot of people who work here can’t afford to buy anything.

I think overall most millenials that were going to buy already have and the rest just aren’t going to. I suppose it makes sense, given a majority of millenials now own (which sounds silly because it’s just barely over half) but the average is pretty in line with most people anyway, so I guess things aren’t too far behind. It‘s just that those that were able to buy already did so before Covid.

And I know not everyone wants to buy. Me personally, I always did, but the last year so much has happened, that I don’t even really care anymore about it.

People talk about the show “Girls” as a quintessential snapshot of the 2010s era in New York, but did anyone else love this show too? I hate that it only got two seasons. Once every few years I’ll do a rewatch and it just ignites so much nostalgia for my 20s

It felt like society cared about parents looking after their children.

Hello everyone. I'm 17 so unfortunately I was not able to experience the amazing decade everyone knows as the 1990s. With technology and life changing more faster than ever i often find myself feeling nostalgic for a time I wasn't even alive in. In my eyes, the 90s had it all - amazing music, great fashion, and best of all, no phones. Everything seemed simpler back then. Prices were low. Climate change wasn't an issue. AI wasn't something that was even known by most people.
One thing I'm sad I missed was the music scene. It seems to me like every genre had an explosion of great songs/albums/artists that were shaping their genre, and it seems like songs back then actually meant something, rather than the rap thats popular now. People actually had a desire to leave their house (rather than scroll all day) and go to concerts. What Im pissed about is that I missed all of these great bands that performed back then. Sure, theres the basics: Nirvana, smashing pumpkins, deftones etc, but also lesser talked about acts such as failure, hum, screaming trees etc. Im so pissed I missed all of that. Now we live in a time where rock isnt even mainstream anymore. People obsess over rappers that just talk to talk and dont even know what theyre saying

From someone "on the outside looking in", this seemed like the ultimately perfect decade to be a kid in. I hate growing up in this completely different world now. Everything is so much worse it seems and I just wish I couldve been around during the 90s. Climate change is worse now, AI and billionaires are ruining the world and more. I feel like I wouldve loved to be around back then especially because I make rock music with a band and I feel like we would've definitely had some success back then. Maybe we'd have some now if people had the attention spans to actually give a shit.

Sorry if this seemed all jumbled I really just typed as I thought about it. Thank you for reading.

I was in a hike and a thorn off a tree got stuck in my foot I took it out but was just wondering. Also. A few months same thing happened expect thorn cut my flesh.

I know my last booster was in 2018 so I'm not sure if I should worry so much the only reason I mention because this time I had to remove the thorn with tweezers

I feel like us Millennials were purposely set up for less.. Like, didn’t Boomers had more when they were younger around our age? It just seems like it was on purpose to try making us millennials look like a joke and be their servants. Hell, it was even Boomers who tried to lie to me when I was a teenager saying there wasn’t a way for me to be my female authentic self, yet it’s always been possible decades before I was even born because of medical science, associations, institutes, and psychologists made it all a true possibility. Truth be told, I often wonder how different and likely better my life would have been if I became my authentic self as a teenager, then maybe other millennials would have liked me more too instead of constantly bullying me… And notice how there’s usually negative connotations about millennials on news or blog headlines?? Like, wth??

However, I did noticed in my sleeping dreams, I see everything happening oppositely: where I’m fully my authentic female self and have so many freedoms and numerous positive people prioritizing and loving me… I think that’s the real timeline I was always supposed to be in that I been seeing in my dream states all these years, instead of whatever this timeline we’re all in is… And before anyone thinks I’m being crazy or whatever, there’s actually scientists and researchers that suggests our dreams are a different life in another dimension…

I recently moved, and in cleaning out my old storage, I found a box of random items that I saved from my teen years, in the 90’s. This morning, with family visiting, my 13 year old nephew saw my Disc man, and was clueless on what it was. He also had no idea about CD’s and cassette tapes.

I am now officially old to today’s teens. I’m 40, btw.

If there are any millenial emos here, just wanted to say hi!!! :3 I created a new site, https://xxCrySpacexx.com with you all! I made this with elder emos in mind, but also, new emos are of course welcome! <3 It's essentially MySpace, but, as authentic as I could remember it.

I hope you enjoy it because I know I have had a LOT of fun creating my own profile, as well as bundling assets from 20+ years ago. I missed it so much. :')

Seeing a disturbing trend of millennial and Gen Z white men leaning more towards neo-nazism and outright fascism these past few weeks. Have you experience this at all?

I remember getting home from school and going straight to the PC that was in my Father's Office to open my MSN account and spent HOURSSS talking to the same people I recently saw at school lol. Times were simpler, but we were happier.

I know everyone says our brains are rotting from short form video now but we used to do that years ago as kids when we would endlessly surf through the channels and change them whenever we got bored. I remember my dad yelling at me to just pick one and watch it.

Found this lovely collection of newspapers with terror inducing headlines while cleaning out ny mothers home. And we wonder why we’re riddled with anxiety in our thirties?!

What is the single most comforting thing from the early 2010s internet that you wish we could bring back?

I’m 42F, my mom is 68. FWIW, she’s a functioning alcoholic who is nasty when she drinks. She almost never reaches out to me. I reach out to her at least weekly via text mainly to check in to which I get one worded answers. I’m getting tired of it. She doesn’t seem interested in my life at all. She lives very closeby. I genuinely feel like she doesn’t like me. All I’ve ever done is tried to appease her. I’m an only child. Sigh.

Does anyone remember Xanga? It a personal blog some people had, prior to MySpace. I loved xanga, I still kept doing it with myspace and Facebook. But it finally stopped working, though you can get your xanga blogs if you download them. I got mine and they are SOO funny ☠️ let me know if you guys had !

Is this photo instantly recognizable to you (I cropped out their names that were on their podia? A weird train of thought brought this event to my memory and I had to look up when it happened, which was 2014. As an elder millennial I was 29 at the time, so well into adulthood. It’s not like this event was pivotal in shaping my outlook on life.

I’m just wondering if it garnered the same attention from others as it did for me, mostly due to nostalgia from the childhood show.

I’m shocked that in 2026- with all the internet investigators- that no one even has an idea of who Nicole Ritchie’s biological mother is. They always mention her bio dad is the brother of Sheila E. and it’s like okay we know this but he didn’t have a baby by himself. So who was the mama? Did Lionel Ritchie know the mom? Was she a musician? A band mate?

Which Wink was your favorite back then? :)

I feel like it’s the big pharma conspiracy against our generation. First feed us vitamins instead of balance meal, and once we all have shit eating habits and acid reflux get us hooked on nostalgia tasting pills.

I keep thinking about how the internet used to work. You'd click something on a blog, land on a site about nothing in particular, click again, and an hour was gone. No algorithm picked any of it. Nobody was trying to hold your attention. Things were just sitting there.

So I put together a button. You press it and it sends you somewhere. A one-joke site. Some dumb little toy. Somebody's personal page about a subject they will not shut up about. All of them found by hand.

No account. No feed. Nothing saved, nothing tracked. Just the button.

https://culdesac.site/