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At the age of 30, Maria has already travelled to eight countries and knows dozens of cities throughout Brazil. Differently from her parents when they reached the third decade of their lives, the young lady doesn\u2019t own a house or a car. Frankly, Maria doesn\u2019t seem to care about that. Maria, a fictitious name, represents Generation Y, young adults who don\u2019t seem to care about definitive choices, such as buying a house. On the contrary, they feel better leading a \u201cgypsy\u201d life, trying out new homes, neighborhoods and cities, together with partners, friends, or even pets.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The explanation is simple: this generation of 30 to 35 years of age, differently from its preceding generations, doesn\u2019t measure success by material goods, but values moments, variety of experiences, and absorption of new cultures and lifestyles. To them, it\u2019s more worthwhile to collect experiences, whether by living in different places, or by trips and exchanges, knowing other countries, or even other states in Brazil, instead of firstly becoming homeowners, which used to be everyone\u2019s dream. It\u2019s much better not to worry about parking space or the upkeep of a car if it\u2019s possible to get a lift in a comfortable vehicle offered by numerous apps.<\/span><\/p>\n In liquid times, with a bow to Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, the transience of sensations reigns. The fear of \u201ctiring\u201d of an expensive material good, added to wanting their life choices to be different from the ones of their parents, and even the consciousness of the economic crisis that devastated the world in the past decade (and is still reverberating in this country), makes incurring debts (thinking of the future, such as buying real estate) an unattractive choice. <\/span><\/p>\n The generation that lived for 10, 20 or 30 years in their parents\u2019 house, often the same house for all these years, now wants to live in a place for the length of a rental contract, until a rise in social status allows them to move to a higher class neighborhood and\/or to a place closer to work. According to Forbes, the average stay in the same job for workers of this generation is of 3 years. Therefore, it doesn\u2019t make sense to think of the future in buying a house in a place that might become far from the next job.<\/span><\/p>\n The same goes for \u201csummer homes\u201d. Instead of spending every holiday in the same place for years and years, what Generation Y really wants is to rent a room in an inn, a hotel, or an \u201cAirbnb\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Each generation has its own characteristics. Though it might seem strange to those who are used to measuring success and attaching a meaning of stability and financial guarantee to possession of real estate and vehicles, there is nothing wrong with the young Y adults. To them, nobody can take away what they have to tell, since learning and memories are priceless. After all, moving house is good, inside and out, from one house to another, and another, and another\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the age of 30, Maria has already travelled to eight countries and knows dozens of cities throughout Brazil. Differently from her parents when they reached the third decade of their lives, the young lady doesn\u2019t own a house or a car. Frankly, Maria doesn\u2019t seem to care about that. Maria, a fictitious name, represents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52,9,151,44,122,368,369,370],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-change","tag-fink","tag-mobility","tag-moves","tag-relocation","tag-versatile-generation","tag-y-generation","tag-young"],"yoast_head":"\n