Lol, no. They were able to have a house and multiple kids on one salary.

Better in what regard? Fiscally all things adjusted and accounted for? Fuck no,

Progress as a person and self growth and development? Absolutely.

Also I will never breed, so always will be one up on my parents there,

I would say same standard of living but the difference is they had a kid and my wife and I don’t. We simply could not have the same lifestyle if we had children.

When my parents were my age, they left their country to move to the US in search of opportunities. Now that I’m that age, I’m leaving my country to move to another because of literal Nazis

My parents had a mortgage; car loans; and 4 children at my age, while I struggle to maintain employment and don’t qualify for any type of financing because of it and all this despite having a very high demand skillet in tech; I’m not only doing worse than my parents, but worse than most of my peers.

To be fair: I don’t fit the stereotype of an autistic person so people presume I’m neurotypical and that keeps long term employment out of reach for me.

Financially yes, psychologically, no.

That’s sad. My dad got molested by a priest when he was a kid. Back in the 70s, nobody took it seriously enough and people didn’t want the shame of it so it got brushed under the rug. Nobody ever helped him growing up so he became a severe alcoholic and drug addict. Constantly getting taken by the cops, unable to hold a job for long. But he still gave a fuck about me enough to actually make sure I did the right stuff as an adult and get a decent job. I’ll finish by saying this, the priest that did it got shipped off by the church to the Phillipines. They tried hiding him. But he did it again there and they fucking killed him. Mutilated him while he was still alive and fed him his own dick then tied his corpse to a pole in the center of town. At least according to my aunties.

Nope.

Financially? No Psychologically? Also no but I’ve actually got therapy and taken a step to breaking generational trauma so that’s something!

Yes and no. I probably am a bit better off than my parents, but they raised 4 kids and I raised none. My Mom was mostly stay at home (went back to work after all us kids moved out). My spouse has a good career, which is an added bonus.

Yeah, by a long shot. We didn’t have a lot growing up but my parents made sure I went to school.

In some ways, sure. I’m not religious, and I don’t have children. In terms of finances, no.

No. I’m not in a bad spot but definitely not as comfortable as I grew up.

Technically not since they were married, were renting small house, and had at least one kid by the time they were my age. I’m still in college.

Well, I managed to avoid my mother’s mistake of marrying one of the first guys I seriously dated, so I haven’t had to go through a divorce yet like she did. However, she’d owned two houses by now, and I’ll be lucky to get one before 40. Seems like no.