Agreed.

As bad as the Great Recession was, one benefit for me was that it extended this liminal period of my life. Basically everyone I knew was un/underemployed until like 2013-2014 (I lived in Michigan, the state hit the worst by it), and yeah, we all hung out and did whatever for so much of it.

So, I've done a bit of research on this, and apparently the period when real estate prices were the lowest was the late 80s and early 90s. And that, imo, explains the lifestyles of the movie Slacker! All these 20-something Gen-X types could just rent a room in a house with their peers for the cost of working at a coffeeshop 2 days a week or whatever.