Millennials don't like staying home at night! That's the basic take-away from a new survey from a site called Bankrate and their fairly judgey-sounding Millennial blogger nicknamed The Cashelorette, and picked up by the San Francisco Business Times. According to the survey conducted last month, speaking to an undisclosed number of younger Millennials aged 21 to 26, 54 percent say they eat out "at least three times a week," and go out to a bar at least once a week. Add to that people's coffee habits, which among this group amounts to 30 percent buying brewed coffee from a retail outlet about three times a week.
Compare that to the average American who says they dine out only about once a week, as the Business Times notes. (And according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in February, that number may in fact be dropping.)
The Cashelorette translates this data about her age cohort to "we're spending a lot of money on vices," even though food from a restaurant shouldn't really be called a vice, and her overall set of tips is great in theory for people trying to save money, but there is more to life than eating pasta at home, and cooking anything elaborate can often cost you more in ingredients than grabbing a quick burrito or slice of pizza, particularly if you're shopping at Whole Foods or Bi-Rite.
And nightlife in American cities is suffering enough at the hands of lazy, Netflix-watching, Tindr-using Millennials without scolds like this 24-year-old blogger telling everyone to conserve their cash for later and live a more sober life!
So, keep on living your lives, I say. Support your city's restaurants and bars and interact with the world outside your phones! A third of you (in the Bay Area) are still living off your parents anyway. You can start saving money next year.
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