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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:39 pm to Dire Wolf
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:39 pm to Dire Wolf
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3231-Allen-Pkwy-APT-4301-Houston-TX-77019/68427227_zpid/
here, no murders near here.
here, no murders near here.
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:46 pm to poochie
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:51 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:
In what world is $354/sqft cheap?
less than $200k, great area. Not good enough though......
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:53 pm to Oilfieldbiology
quote:Point to you. To me that’s a place to begin from, not end at whole you work on improving your life.
Never said it did, but you said get a HS degree and find a good job, and then used a job requiring a 2-year associates degree. I was just pointing that out.
quote:Not quite, but mostly true.
All I was saying is that simply getting a HS degree is good enough to get you manual labor/minimum wage jobs. That’s it.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:57 pm to poochie
How dare those spoiled brats want to live away from violent crime! The entitlement!
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:58 pm to poochie
quote:
less than $200k, great area. Not good enough though.
It’s fine if you are just looking to build equity but you’d be lucky to break even when you sold it. Especially with all the apartments being built around that area.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:01 pm to llfshoals
I think you and I mostly agree in this thread. It’s still possible to work hard, live within your means, make good life decisions, and get ahead financially.
It just takes a frick load of work ethic and a significant amount of self discipline to not spend on luxuries like eating out as often and taking expensive vacations. With that said, housing is significantly more expensive than when many of our parents were in school in the 70’s and 80’s and now there are more and greater expenses you must pay for to exist in modern society that many young families didn’t have 30-40 years ago:
Internet
Cell phones
Car insurance
Home insurance
Additionally, the US population has grown from 250 million to 340 million and space isn’t increasing. It’s physically not possible.
All I’m arguing in this thread is that you’ll be successful if you follow the tried and true plan of graduating, not doing drugs, not getting arrested, not having kids before marriage, and budgeting to save every month. But it’s still more expensive than 30 years ago.
It just takes a frick load of work ethic and a significant amount of self discipline to not spend on luxuries like eating out as often and taking expensive vacations. With that said, housing is significantly more expensive than when many of our parents were in school in the 70’s and 80’s and now there are more and greater expenses you must pay for to exist in modern society that many young families didn’t have 30-40 years ago:
Internet
Cell phones
Car insurance
Home insurance
Additionally, the US population has grown from 250 million to 340 million and space isn’t increasing. It’s physically not possible.
All I’m arguing in this thread is that you’ll be successful if you follow the tried and true plan of graduating, not doing drugs, not getting arrested, not having kids before marriage, and budgeting to save every month. But it’s still more expensive than 30 years ago.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:08 pm to imjustafatkid
quote:I would like to subscribe to your podcast, which I'm assuming is either titled "Absurdly Reductionist Solutions to Extremely Complex Problems" or "Talking Out of My arse."
Just pick a field with jobs available that needs people.It's really that simple. It isn't hard to figure out.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:08 pm to baobabtiger
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Most are screwed. However, the wants on basic things like a house are much different today than for our grandparents. They lived in 3 br 1 bath box’s that were a lot smaller than the average home today. Features like paneled walls, 8 ft ceilings, low roof pitch, and small lots were very common. The features in most apartments today were not in the nicest of neighborhoods in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
My daughter and her husband just got their first house. He's an HVAC guy and she manages a local restaurant. We helped with the down payment. There's still some blue collar areas around Bham that are affordable. They ended up with a fixer upper in Leeds, AL for under $200K. It needs work, but they don't have any car payments or student loan debt so they should be fine.
It can be done, but I think the problem is more expectations than anything else.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:14 pm to Limitlesstigers
quote:
This is our third Boomernomics thread this month and nobody has posted an Old Economy Steve meme?
I searched for the entire stack of these memes but couldn't think of the exact search terms.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:33 pm to DrrTiger
quote:no way you ever moved out of that trailer park you were yammering about earlier with this level of cognitive ability
But does it have a man cave, quartz countertops, and an under 15 minute commute to my job. Those are starter home requisites.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:39 pm to Louie T
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no way you ever moved out of that trailer park you were yammering about earlier with this level of cognitive ability
Never said I lived in a trailer park.
But I guess I shouldn’t expect much reading comprehension from the generation that gets confused by loan repayment terms.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:41 pm to lsupride87
quote:50 years ago my parents couldn't afford a home, so they squatted on an abandoned family shack.
50 years ago Americans could live just about anywhere and with a solid job
We didn't have running water until we ran a pipe from the neighbors house.
We barely had electricity, it was 2 fuses for the whole house.
I was shitting in an outhouse, the year that Star Wars was released.
We put 2 adults and 5 kids in 600 square feet. Heated with kerosene and coal.
Back then I didn't know we were poor. I thought we were middle class.
I will say it again. Suck it up buttercup.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:48 pm to Asharad
quote:
so they squatted on an abandoned family shack.
We didn't have running water until we ran a pipe from the neighbors house.
We barely had electricity, it was 2 fuses for the whole house.
I was shitting in an outhouse,
Thats called being homeless
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:50 pm to Aubie Spr96
quote:I sold a client one in Adamsville a little under 200k. 2000sf, needed a little work but had been taken care pretty well.
They ended up with a fixer upper in Leeds, AL for under $200K. It needs work, but they don't have any car payments or student loan debt so they should be fine.
Theres property available, just have to expand their expectations.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:55 pm to Deactived
quote:we lived there for 17 years. Then I downgraded to appts and trailers before saving my own money to start a house.
Thats called being homeless
People think they have it bad. They have no fricking clue. They are spoiled rotten.
It really bothers me when millennials claim I had it better. They have no clue. Plus we didn't feel sorry for ourselves like millennials do.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:58 pm to PeteRose
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“If you can’t afford a house in 2024, you’re just lazy/not busting your arse/a soft generation”
Or you made some poor choices. All of the young people I know are avoiding these problems. All of my sons and daughters, all of their friends, all of my nieces and nephews with three exceptions. The exceptions…
1. One of my nieces is just very not smart. She is a good person, though. And luckily she is marrying a fellow who is an immigrant with no college education, but who is a hard working welder. So they are going to be fine.
2. Another niece is in her 30s and has never worked. Smart girl, who used to be very good looking. She blimped up and just won’t work. People have put opportunities in front of her, but no dice.
3. A nephew is just weird. Tried the military and was pushed out for being weird. Collects disability from the Navy for a “bad back” that he had before enlisting and that doesn’t affect him anyway.
Meantime…I know a lot of immigrants who cut grass and do other menial stuff and they own houses they bought with cash.
If we analyze the folks with these problems we will find that they reached their mid-20s with no marketable skills because they screwed off. Many just won’t do manual labor when that’s all they are fit for.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 6:08 pm to Asharad
quote:
It really bothers me when millennials claim I had it better
You weren't the norm. You were homeless
Posted on 5/6/24 at 6:08 pm to Penrod
quote:We used to say “the world needs ditch diggers too”
Many just won’t do manual labor when that’s all they are fit for.
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