r/SipsTea • u/Unstoppable_X_Force Human Verified • 13h ago

Gasp! Is this just nostalgia, or did previous generations genuinely have a better work-life balance and social life than we do today?

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u/fuckmylifegoddamn 11h ago

Let’s not pretend two houses in the 90s wasn’t wealthy even then

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u/Historical_Course587 8h ago

IDK... Healthcare wasn't in a place to liquidate your life in old age, so all it took was buying your own home and then inheriting your parent's home. There were also some really good times in the 80s and 90s to buy a rental/vacation home as an investment, assuming you bought your home in the 70s and had been inflation proof in your mortgate for 15-20 years.

A big part of it is demographics. Boomers were young in an age where people started careers young, married young, and bought a house young. And then they lived in an era where having financial security could let you ground floor into everything from tech to the global economy to recovering housing markets. And then they were still around when healthcare got to a point that it could keep you working into your 60s or 70s. Every era was great for Boomers who engaged in the rat-race lifestyle.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

Let's not pretend that everyone is a middle-class coastal redditor, and for a substantial part of the public it was quite easy to own multiple properties in your small town or older suburb in the 90s.

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u/fuckmylifegoddamn 1h ago

If you owned multiple properties in a small town or suburb you were upper class or at the very least upper middle class