Any other millennials fancy a moan?

[MoscowMules]

I know everyone says, the generation before you had it harder, all the way back to the Crimean War probably.

But

Is anyone else who is a millennial just a bit fed up? Fancy a pity party?

I reflected this evening on things that have happened.

I was born in the very early 90's, so am pretty much smack bang in the middle of the millennials.

We've lived under pretty much unstable governments in adulthood. Mainly conservative.

We've had 2 global recessions

An illegal War

Brexit

A global pandemic

Housing Crisis

Cost of living crisis

Possible collapse of the NHS or if not collapse it continues to limp on with poor care

Russia invade Ukraine and global tension.

To mention but a few calamities, and now here we are, trying to raise Alpha Generation typically, in the midst of all this.

I just feel a bit like "wtf" how much more can we take?

Yes there were good things on a social level, we were the first to learn and grow from the internet and become digital. LGB rights moved forward with same sex marriage, education improved especially with the removal of Section 28 from the education act towards the end of some of our schooling.

But my god! What a generation to belong to and try and navigate in.

I totally accept if I'm having a pity party for one here tonight though 🤣

Yep! Pity party joined!

I grew up and my Dad worked a good civil service job, and Mum worked part time. Money was considered short!!!!! But we had a big house, 2 weeks in Cornwall a year. When he retired he retired with a pension which pays him more more my income and a one off gratuity payment. Things I could only dream of. I'm single now, but even when we had 2 full time incomes, money was tight, no real holidays, small house and we were lucky in relative terms.

I think its interesting the reflection on politics. When I was 18, I voted Conservative. I grew up in a right wing Tory household. Mail and Express readers through and through. Instead of following that trend, events around me have pushed me further and further left. I can only hope that is something that reflected across society because there is absolutely no doubt in my mind this country is up shit Street. No paddle and no boat. Its a mess. And sometimes everything has to break to be mended and I feel that is where we are heading. I'm deeply saddened at the state of this country. I thought this couldn't get worse after the referendum. How wrong I was.

As some have already said, we've never been and adult in years if stability and growth. I left school in 2007. Got a job for a year to help me through uni. Worked through uni from 2008 to 2011, during a recession. when I left uni in 2011 I was earning actual peanuts and was supported by my then partner. Got myself a professional qualification and started working for the public sector. I was winning. Brilliant salary for my age. We managed to scrape a deposit together and bought a small house. Had a baby all the right stuff. I went back to work part time because childcare would have crippled us. Marriage ended in 2020, right at the beginning of a frigging pandemic. Thankfully I actually made some money on the house and had enough to buy a shared ownership.

My job won't let me up my hours so I'm currently stuck in a part time job, in a stagnant job market. As a public sector worker I've not had a pay rise since 2019. Until this year which was a full 3% ( how exciting). However I am just expected to pick up from a colleague who had just left who isn't being re-recruited.

For many in this generation, they get poorer, not better off and it stinks. No ability to get a dentist in my area. Non urgent gp appointment cancelled at the moment. No mental health support when the sheer hell of it gets too much for you. Delays of years on NHS support to see consultants. so not only will we be financially worse of than previous generations, we will be worse off health wise. And will probably live shorter, harder lives. Claiming our pension later. Enjoying it for a shorter time. Having less to enjoy it with even when or if we do get there.

As a mum I want life to be better for my child. Many Boomers live with the attitude that we had it hard, so why shouldn't they. I can't fathom it.

Do you not think you lack any historical perspective whatsoever?

Until 1945 the majority of the UL population lived in poverty. The inner city slums that were cleared after WW2 had conditions akin to developing countries.

Home owning was not the norm pre Thatcher and it is a very British pre-occupation.

I was born in 1980 and I don’t think it is so bad. I grew up in the NI Troubles but lots of good times as well. Good job and own home now. Lucky enough to have had peace mostly since I was about 13. My parents endured the worst of the NI Troubles, loss of their friends etc and my father had to endure the long-term unemployment that ensued from Thatcherism in the 1980s which wrecked him. The idea that everybody had it so good in that post war generation is a total myth. A minority benefited and there has been a change to the structure of society with greater numbers of middle class.

Most of those who are now retired in their 70s and 80s worked from they were 16 with only a minority going to university etc. the idea suggested by some that you are suffering because of them is nonsense.

@Pebstk I'm pleased we're aspiring to go backwards. Millennial are in their mid 30s. Many still not on th

The super rich have basically been hoarding all the money.

Struggling to see British millennials as the victims of the Iraq War.

Many still not on the property ladder. Many won't manage it. That's not through professional choice or education, because many from previous generations could aspire to home ownership from relatively limited incomes, on single incomes. So now even those who have duel incomes, decent incomes, cannot aspire to a home. ANd rent absolutely strips them of any disposable income. So not only do they not have a secure home now, they will actually struggle to retire because pensions have shrunk and they will have to continue paying enormous mortgages, or rent later on in life.

So no. Thankfully we don't have scurvy from eating avocados, but we don't have what people need, a secure home.

I can't believe it when the older couple selling a big house on a property programme are a school dinner lady and a lorry driver or something.

It's not happening nowadays is it?