haha thought you were talking about 80s and 90s. real estate was considered very risky and nobody were seeing it like stocks as interest rates were double digits. that was the prevailing attitude and why many chose to rent because it was the renter's market as real estate market did not recover post japanese real estate bubble deflationary
not to mention 1 out of 2 GEN-Z and 1 out of 4 millenials are hodling crypto, the situation is far more bleak than ever before.