They didn't buy 400 rs coffees to put on their Instagram stories

Product Engineer

My parents at 24: OMG this house looks great babe lets buy this for our future kids 
  
 Me at 24: Ok alexa, how to invert a binary tree

Data engineer

They definitely must have sacrificed many things in order to do buy the house. so you don't have to make sacrifices. So take your time and do something great

Software Developer

I am 32. Have 2 boys. A wife to die for. Loving parents. Own one 2bhk in Gurgaon and a 2 storied house in my village for parents. Happy? Yes. Content? Not so much. Greedy head always wants more :D

Parents villages me aur aap gurgaon me flat me rehte ho?

Software Engineer

Me and parents have been switching between Gurgaon and village for the last 4 years as I work from home but I am hoping to shift them permanently. However, they want to live in village.

Product Marketing Manager

Mental blocks aka FOMO did not exist then and back then show off was not deeply engraved. Social media might have multiple benefits but it definitely ruined the metrics of human happiness and satisfaction.

Software Lead

We seem to have a more lavish lifestyle - expensive movies, road trips, vacations, eating out and other weekend activities compared to our parents. While our parents did most of these things it was often cheap and wasn't as expensive as today.

Infrastructure Engineer

Everyone has a different version of happiness and purpose, given their circumstances. Life is about that journey of figuring it out.

Generalist

Machine Learning Engineer

Lawyer

Grass is greener on the other side. The fact that we are not bound to a fixed place on the earth and can literally settle anywhere and work remotely, is the greatest freedom in the history of mankind.

I have a different take to it which isn't sad. 
  
 As everyone else has been saying in comments, Older generations did not spend on other things like Cafes, vacations, dates and gadgets as we do. But they spent on housing, which was very basic. My parents bought a 2BHK which is too small, no amenities and very less furnishings. As I see it, housing took highest % of their life incomes. 
  
 But for us, we have diversified our spends that is hopefully making our life more fruitful. I think that is smart. That is making our lives a bit easier and convenient, a bit more relaxed, a bit more exciting. 
  
 What wallet allocation older generation followed might be best suited for their time. But for us, self bought housing might be very low in our priorities. So if we are making our lives better in 2024  by spending our our essentials but we are unable to carve out budgets for buying a house, we need not fret it.

Investment Manager

my parents have done 3x better than me.. one working, 2 kids and 3bhk house at age 30.. can't imagine this nowadays

sad reality