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Stop spending money on avocados? Good idea, I’ll have a house deposit by 2117 | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A millionaire has decided that millennials can’t afford to buy a home because of our crippling brunch habit. Where to start …
‘Anyone my age and younger has become used to it by now. Boomers, instead of blaming themselves, will always blame brunch.’ Photograph: Hill Street Studios/Getty Images/Blend Images

To read newspaper headlines, you’d think that millennials had invented the avocado. Apparently this expensive fruit (usually “smashed” on toast, with a variety of garnishes) is all we eat – if we even eat it at all, rather than just ordering it and , before chucking it on top of the , for which we are also to blame. The fetishisation of the avocado has now reached such an apex that are opening and New York, which also, coincidentally, happen to be the spiritual homes of the worst of all millennials – those of us with the audacity to live in expensive cities despite

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