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Originally Posted by giallo
In this regard, Canadian cities have become extremely hostile to younger generations. Getting a job and an apartment are tough enough, but getting a job that pays enough to afford an apartment is even more difficult. They're all just stuck at home, unable to start that next chapter.
I wonder what this generation is going to look like coming out of the other side of this.
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Angry and embittered, I imagine. Ratcheting down expectations is painful.
The country is run in a fashion for a certain demographic. Try to play one's life in that fashion and you might get by alright.
It's one thing to be not well off, but at least living is
cheap. One can foment creativity that way when young. It's another to be stifled by high cost. One bears these things for a bit, but eventually it catches up to you. It's fun to live with friends in the city in one's early 20s. It loses a lot of pizzazz in one's 30s and 40s.
New York and San Francisco of the 1970s were not nice cities, but they were creative spots for the young. New York and San Francisco of the 2020s are nicer, but the cost of getting in is so dear as to annihilate the creative energy of youth.
Admittedly, the bet was previously to import people en masse with lower expectations. When the young from
India look at Canada and are disappointed, well...that says something about life here.