On TikTok our girls almost always appear with their faces covered by their hands and hair, or a beam of searing light erases their identity. They are more cautious than their older sisters, the millennials, but that does not mean they stop interacting. They talk through the screen with an interface: one day it’s time to deform like Alicia, another, to animalize, because the game of identity is infinite in the virtual world. The crisis has given them excuses to hurry little by little.
They believe more in people than in companies, they defend real food and most of them, almost 60%, dream of one day owning a home. The most repeated option is “a house with land”, according to an interesting study carried out by the Silestone Institute. And it is surprising to have such great faith in the future when economic instability has been the only climate they have known. Because the housing crisis has not diminished the ambition of those who imagine owning a home where they can feel safe and secure. Light and space are on the rise, according to the study, resigned as true luxury. And eight out of ten ask for a terrace or garden. The perception of one’s own home as a refuge has increased among Generation Z.
Far from dreaming as a child, the house desired by young people between 18 and 25 years old is bright and comfortable, decorated in a minimalist style and hyper-connected. That room that defined class in transitional Spain is back: the office, although its use then was mostly 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 co-living for adults.
With their tattoos, transgression on the tongue, they are more conservative than they seem. And they share with their parents an old dream that many abandoned; have a villa with plot. A nest with a view.
