Certainly not to diminish the issues and pressures this generation is facing, but they are not unique. My dad hit the working world in the middle of the Great Depression (~30% unemployment) then WWII. My generation watched as two paranoid and bellicose nuclear powers squared off at each like alley cats.
I get that employment prospects are better in large urban areas for young people, but it often comes with a high cost of living. Although it wasn't raised in the article, I understand when folks want to stay or migrate there, but when I hear statements that they will absolutely refuse to leave or consider employment elsewhere, based solely on things like friends, family |(requirements of elder care aside), the 'social life', etc. they start to lose me. My first real job took me two hours away, then 20, then 10. A friend's son just graduated university and went to Halifax because that's where the work was. Some on here have done much more including internationally. Generations before us travelled thousands of miles in an era of no social safety nets and little in the way of labour laws. This is most connected generation; we had to stay in touch via an expensive long distance phone call or a mailed letter. Great if you carve a fulfilling and adequate life in the city, but friends, bars and clubs won't pay the bills.