For all the Millennials crying about housing costs, here you go

Millennial's are in their mid 40s and half way through a mortgage. Boomers skipped math class and social reasoning.

Address got yo arse

I guess the biggest problem we have these days is that everyone needs to be in the same place to have access to jobs.

We shipped virtually all of our small-town blue collar manufacturing work overseas, or automated it. Now all the affordable homes are in places where people can’t get anything other than a minimum wage, dead-end job with no benefits.

Plenty of gorgeous homes available for next to nothing in small town USA. But good luck wasting your life and gas commuting to the nearest decent size city.

ETA it doesn’t help that blue cities have allowed huge swaths of neighborhoods to be taken over by drugs and violent crime, making them uninhabitable for normal working people.

Millennials can be as young as 30.

A house in my neighborhood just went up for sale. Equally as nice part of Metairie (Metairie lakefront neighborhood). On a double lot, 5br 4 bath at 3352 sw ft with a pool, detached garage with a sauna and full bathroom by the pool. $625k. The house listed in the OP is overpriced and not indicative of the market as a whole

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How much is it? I ain't looking through 355 pics.


n/m... something obviously went far over my head

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...as does many posts I read on TD.

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Plenty of gorgeous homes available for next to nothing in small town USA. But good luck wasting your life and gas commuting to the nearest decent size city.

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I kind of agree in general, although I'm certain you can find MUCH more affordabld homes even just 20 miles or less outside of the city center, assuming that's where a person works. People just tend ot be lazy and don't want to commute more than 10 minutes.

Another major issue to me is the concept of a "starter home" is lost on this younger generation. When I think starter home i think of like 1000 SF, probably 2 bedrooms with maybe a full sized 2nd bathroom, no frills. Basically a place to call home while you're in your mid 20s. Recent college grads these days think they should be buying a "starter home" that is comparable to the much larger and nicer home they grew up in, which their parents probably didn't buy until they were in their 40s and had saved up quite a while for.

Boomers getting to buy a house and a 4 year college degree for peanuts and then using all the extra money to invest to get even more money must have been nice. The Gen Z’ers’ and young millennials stuck paying rent for an apartment or house are paying that rent to…..you guest it, boomers who have invested in real estate and then bought up all the houses to rent out. Boomers stacking up the cash while they’re screwed the future generations out of building equity.