As a Gen-X'er, I had the same conversation with my grandparents 35 years ago.
"Why don't you just buy a house?"
"Do you know how much houses cost now?"
"Well, we bought our first house for $40,000."
"$40,000 isn't even a down payment now. Tell you what, here's how much I make, let's sit down with the real estate listings and you tell me what I can afford."
". . . Oh."
"Yeah, right, 'Oh'."
I did finally buy a house... 33 years later, a decade after they both died.
And her son wasn't the only one struggling. Jess received a call from her eldest daughter, who was complaining that her husband was going to have to quit his job to take care of their kids because of how expensive childcare was. They were spending more on daycare than what he was earning.
Obviously the solution is to ban abortion
No better way to keep women, poor, oppressed, and chained to marriage whether they want to be or not.
This is why I hate how media tries to stir up ‘this generation vs that’, and I refuse to fall prey to it. I’m 40 and I have so much respect for younger generations trying to make it now. It’s still hard enough for me and I can’t imagine how much harder it is for them.
Also, even if I don’t get the stuff they’re into, that’s ok because the generations before me don’t get the stuff I’m into. People seem to get older and forget they were at one time considered the ‘lazy’ ones who liked ‘dumb’ stuff.
Literally every single generation we have records of. Hell, there were ancient Romans (and I mean ANCIENT) who wrote about how their 'cultural values' were in decline compared to the older generations. And this was BEFORE Rome was even an empire, this was back in the B.C.E.s
Lol
Uh, the youngest millennial is 28 years old. Why is mommy taking him apartment shopping?
The kid sounded like he had a plan of his own and was working towards it, so it might just be as simple as mom has a car and he doesn't, or it's his first apartment and she knows what to look out for when moving into a new one, which he's never had experience doing. The article doesn't make it sound like he's some totally dependent man-child, but it also doesn't elaborate enough to really say why she went along.
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