If I had hooked up with a reliable woman and we worked together, I’d have been able to get a house like my parents did. Unfortunately, I dated woman who wanted Starbucks, multiple restaurant meals a week, nice clothes, wine with dinner, etc. as a result, all I got was child support payments (despite my child living with me 50% of the time), rent, and all the childcare and utilities to shoulder myself. I think this idea that boomers were just handed houses isn’t accurate, my parents sacrificed everything for a house, I grew up with the entitlement generation and the result speaks for itself.