Watch: How do young Londoners feel about turning 30?

I don’t know if it’s my age or pressures from social media but turning 30 feels like a huge deal. I’m sure ‘the big 3-0’ has always felt like a huge life milestone but recently it has felt inescapable.

It might be a hangover from the 90s where anything over 30 was considered ‘on the shelf’ (thanks Bridget Jones). Or maybe it’s because of the old-fashioned but real realities of female biology.

I suppose it could also be a generational thing, my parents were married and had three kids by the time they were my age (27 turning 28), and I’m still trying to figure out how to work a dishwasher - don’t judge I’ve mastered the washing machine.

Either way, it’s a pretty overwhelming prospect. From the Covid gap and changing attitudes to sky-high house prices, and the overwhelming cost of weddings, achieving those typical ‘life goals’ by 30 feels nearly impossible.

But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up on those dreams. I have an image of myself in my 30s, put together, self-assured, buying vegetables I willingly eat from farm shops. I anticipate it to be the best years of my life. It’s just coming up very quickly.

(I realise now this is giving big thirty, flirty and thriving energy...)

But recently there’s been a lot of talk about people ‘giving up on their dreams after 30’. Now I don’t know about you, but that feels a bit dramatic - after all, what’s the famous saying life begins at 40?

So we took to the streets of the capital to ask some young Londoners how they feel about turning 30, and if it’s really the ‘death sentence’ society makes it out to be.

Watch our video above to find out what people are saying, and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.