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I am 29, and I watched a documentary about the 2008 financial crisis, and of course I was too young in 2008 to really "feel" it. It got me to think about our current economic climate, so my question is relatively simple to those who were adults in 2008:

Is the world right now in an actual really, really tough time economically, or am I and my peers just "feeling" and "seeing" it because we're now adults? For example, did you feel similarly, or perhaps even worse, during and after 2008?

Sorry if I sound ignorant, just don't know how much I can trust my own instincts as I tend to overdramatise things presented to me by media.

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  • Like many replying already I was at University in the late 80s and entered the job market in 1989. Luckily a pharmacy degree in the 1990s was like gold dust and shielded me from most of the economic problems other have mentioned.

    I do think though that the situation for people at the start of there adult lives is far worse now than it was then. Housing costs, job security, everyday prices, rents are all now much worse now than then. I look at the struggles so many of the young now will have to make in order to have the things I have had over my lifetime and my heart bleeds 

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  • Like many replying already I was at University in the late 80s and entered the job market in 1989. Luckily a pharmacy degree in the 1990s was like gold dust and shielded me from most of the economic problems other have mentioned.

    I do think though that the situation for people at the start of there adult lives is far worse now than it was then. Housing costs, job security, everyday prices, rents are all now much worse now than then. I look at the struggles so many of the young now will have to make in order to have the things I have had over my lifetime and my heart bleeds 

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