Well I am not one to say one generation is better or worse and I realize everyone faces their own circumstances in their own time, but one thing I constantly hear from my mother (who is 60) is her dissatisfaction that none of her children (I am the oldest at 35, youngest is 29) have a house, a spouse, or a child.
When she was younger, if you didn't have all that by age 30 at the latest you had failed in life. I don't think of it that way but it's true my lifestyle choices are reduced in some ways by not having achieved any of these things. I don't wring my hands about it or anything but it is true. Now she believes me when I say I can afford none of these things, but that's only because she sincerely believes we have had a lot of setbacks she didn't. I do think the 2008 recession hit my cohort at a very bad time, rendering most of us underemployed during the years we are supposed to be gaining skills.
I don't know if it means anything since it's anecdotal but it's still food for thought. I hope the people who are 18-20 now do better.