On TikTok our girls almost always appear with their faces covered by their hands and hair, or else a scorching beam of light erases their identity. They are more cautious than their older sisters, the millennials, but they do not stop interacting. They talk through the screen with an interface: one day they have to become deformed like Alice, another, become animalized, because the game of identity is infinite in the virtual world. The crisis has given them excuses to move slowly.
They believe more in people than in companies, they defend real food and most of them, almost 60%, dream that one day they will own a home. The most repeated option is “a house with land”, according to an interesting study carried out by the Silestone Institute. And such faith in the future is surprising when economic instability has been the only climate they have known. Because the housing crisis has not diminished the ambition of those who imagine they own a home where they can feel safe. Light and space are on the rise, according to the study, resignified as true luxury. And eight out of ten ask for a terrace or garden. The perception of owning a home as a refuge has increased among generation Z.
Far from dreaming small, the house desired by young people between the ages of 18 and 25 is bright and comfortable, decorated in a minimalist style and hyper-connected. That room that marked class in Spain during the transition returns: the office, although then its use was mainly male, and they had to make do with a dressing table. Because they want to separate work and life, put them in two boxes, and few foresee the future option that some experts predict, that of coliving for adults.
With their tattoos, the transgression on the tongue, they are more conservative than they appear. And they share with their parents an old dream that many abandoned: having a chalet with a plot. A nest with a view.
