Millennials in the UK were sold a dream
“Wow,” someone once told me when they saw my place for the first time. “You have a lot of… stuff.” He was looking at the cabinet I fondly refer to as the “everything place” – a repository for receipts, letters, piles of foreign coins I keep telling myself I’ll donate at the airport but never do, emergency cigarettes and a pink lemonade vape I scavenged at a party, and, inexplicably, two jam jars of pens..
Installing a roll-top bath or building a light-filled loft extension – this is the stuff that thirty-something dreams are made of. I can see the appeal. These days, the fashion influencers I follow are more likely to post pictures of their new leather Togo sofas than photos from London Fashion Week or the British Fashion Awards. The star attraction of a friend’s recent birthday party was her garden shed, which she’d converted into a millennial pink study complete with on-trend checkerboard rug.
of homeownership, with the expensive aesthetic and accompanying headache to match. After coming of age in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, we were told that getting on the housing ladder would be a bulwark against financial precarity. But now it isn’t enough to simply own your own place anymore – it has to be Instagram-perfect, too.
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