{"id":11912,"date":"2025-07-21T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11912\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:44:08","slug":"the-financial-reality-gap-among-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11912\/","title":{"rendered":"The Financial Reality Gap Among Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      I&#8217;m not the only one who feels this way, either. In one Reddit thread (which you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Millennials\/comments\/1lzby95\/i_dont_understand_how_other_millennials_are\/?share_id=C0SjfMyifCc-_okrEqFfC&amp;utm_content=1&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>), someone asked how millennials manage to afford their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has to be inheritance money or credit card debt. Right?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Millennials\/comments\/1lzby95\/i_dont_understand_how_other_millennials_are\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">u\/blueglitter24<\/a> questioned. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand how anyone bought a house recently or is raising a child right now. Me and my partner can&#8217;t afford either.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not the only one who feels this way, either. In one Reddit thread (which you can see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[401,84,402,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-11912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-business","tag-evergreen","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}