Millennials

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By the time she turned 40, Suzie Payne had resigned herself to the fact that she would never be able to buy a home.

Tiffany Ng, a 24-year-old tech and culture writer based in New York, was too attached to her iPhone, so she did what humans do when trying to tame an unruly beast.

She chained it to a wall.