This article amuses, not in a way that was intended, I expect, by the newspaper.

It tries to paint the Vancouver region as being somehow meaningfully dissected by the ages of people, that is, by generational cohort. And so the piece talks of "millennials", people in their 20s and 30s, and about increases in their numbers in THIS part of Vancouver and THAT part of South Surrey or whatever.

That kind of description is an exercise in muddying a matter, rather than clarifying a matter.

Look, if you want to inform readers about Vancouver, you HAVE TO say a few things about WHERE the MONEY is COMING FROM. 

The two 30-year-olds ARE NOT the same at all, "guy 1" having a local job like two generations of parents and grandparents in the region before him, and "guy 2" having a multi-millionaire dad who works in Shanghai or Hong Kong or Beijing and buys two houses near UBC for the kids.

"Guy 1" is way out in Port Moody. "Guy 2" is near UBC.

Tell it LIKE IT IS, or don't bother telling it.