I spent most of my time gaming and not going out. Frozen pizzas, top ramen, bulk stuff to keep costs down.

tl;dr: it didn’t really affect them

In 2008 before the crash I was coerced into buying a house I couldn’t afford by an ex. Back then, they would give mortgages to anyone with a pulse, and no that’s not good. It should be good but in the context of that moment it was really really bad. After the crash the house went under water metaphorically and literally and totally ruined my life. Don’t do things you don’t want to do folks, trust your gut.

My 25 year old son has talked about how many of his friends throughout school and college were devastated by the 2008 crash, and their families never fully recovered. We were one of those families. At the time, we lived in the county that had more foreclosures than anywhere else in the nation.

And yet there has hardly been any discussion of the extensive human damage that was done. Profitable businesses got bailed out, but nothing for people whose houses and vehicles were taken, credit ratings destroyed, jobs lost, etc.

I just moved out, I had a good job at the time that was unaffected by this (healthcare) and, if anything, thriving. Nobody I knew was really affected by this either. I think we were too close to starting our careers for it to do much to us.

Gen X. 2008 I was working full time as a systems administrator for an envelope manufacturer. All those foreclosure notices weren’t mailing themselves…

It was hard seeing people I worked with nearing retirement age have their entire portfolios wiped though.

Of course if they had invested when the Dow was 7,800…

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