To think this is a bit funny?

[coltitude]

DD14 has always been quite mature for her age and grew up really fast.
I just walked in on her crying while on a website looking at houses on the laptop, when I asked her what was wrong she said "I'll never be able to afford a nice house! This is the only one that doesn't look gross and it's £600,00". I'm very very very confused? I also burst out laughing which I felt kind of bad about and apologised. She's always been stressed about the future, (Uni, work, kids etc) anyone else's kids like this?

My 20 year old has been getting stressed about this lately too!

I’m late twenties and I often weep in dispair over the nice houses on rightmove too

I blame the media for creating this anxiety. I didn't have a nice house when I started off. I had 2 very small rented rooms, my bed was in the kitchen. Seriously! Everything was second hand and you could feel the gaps in the floorboards through the carpet. My first mortgage was 15% and we ate beans from Kwiksave (think worse than Nisa) to afford the mortgage. I still couldn't afford to buy a £400K but wouldn't expect to.

I think the anxiety about the future that young people (including my DS) is made worse by the media and that makes me bloody angry 😡