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It was New Year’s Eve and I was driving to my friend’s house. The phone rang and it was my local BBC radio station asking if they could phone later that afternoon and get my comments on a story they were following.
“Sure”, I replied, knowing that my friend wouldn’t mind having a broadcast from her living room.
The story was that everyone who is 31 is miserable. That’s according to Bridie Jabour, a 31 year old journalist, who wrote this article in the Guardian newspaper:
In the interview we chatted about the usual battle between the millennials and the boomers. Life is more uncertain for the millennials. Living standards are dropping, job prospects are not what they were and secure housing is unaffordable. They are not having such a good time as the generations that went before them.
Then Roberto, the host of the Drivetime show said, “Here’s a revolutionary idea. I’m fed up all this talk of the age of misery. Let’s create the age of joy…
