Canadian here. 20-30 years ago, it wasn’t common for the average family to have two cars (family car and sports/muscle car) a 2,500 sqft or larger single family house, a cabin near the lakes, boats, quads, annual vacations, and retiring at 65 with a fantastic government + job pension in Florida. I’m not talking about people with multiple degrees who work 12 hours a day/ 6 days a week, I’m talking about regular blue collar working class folks. Now millennials and gen Z think that that life style is for only upper middle class or even rich people. People are happy to be paying $2,000 for a 1 bedroom 700 sqft apartment here, because now new rentals go for $3,000. People are getting used to driving tiny cars or taking the bus. People are fine with “staycations”. People expect to work until their 80s. Most young people have given up on ever owning a real house, forget about a cabin. What has North America become? This continent used to have the highest standard of living in the world.