There's literally nothing more recent than something built in the early 70s without going 1h30 outside the city that I can currently afford, and we're a two-income household with a single child. My parents could afford their - much bigger than I'll ever own - house on a single income (in the same ballpark as my current individual salary, adjusted for inflation) in their early 20s, 30min from downtown. My current freaking rent for a 1200sqft flat is higher than the mortgage they paid on the 2200ft house they bought in the mid-90s after selling the first one. The latest inflation, especially on food and transportation, has been eating in my savings/investing budget so less opportunites to make that money work for me.

I guess the numbers you're pointing at do seem to point towards that I'm supposedly faced with provided with opportunities as they were, but I can't help but feel like I'm getting shafted somewhere along the way cause I'm pretty damn far from feeling like it does.

Maybe my timing is just horrible, I don't know - I did get out of school right after 2008, and wasn't financially ready to buy a home before mid-2020... But I just cannot subjectively recognize my situation in those numbers.