Baby boomer here. Married at 28, rented until 30, first kid at 31. Lower end cars for the first couple of decades.

But let me talk about my parents. As a baby, my dad lived in a tent. (I believe it was brick walls with a tent roof, but I'm not certain of that.) They moved to an actual house, with an outhouse. (While he was still a child, they got indoor plumbing.)

My parents had their first child when my mom was 30. Before that, they both worked - both of them in tech, too! They rented until they were 39 and 36, when they bought their first house.

We look at the baby boomers and think that where we are now is abnormal. I wonder if instead, where we are now is normal, and the baby boomers were a temporary bit of extraordinarily good times.