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re: How old were you when you left the nest ???
Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:08 am to FLObserver
Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:08 am to FLObserver
17. I joined the Air Force after High School.
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:15 am to TH03
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All you baws saying 18, who paid your apartment, health and car insurance, etc etc in college?
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who paid your apartment
Me & GF. Rental discount because I renovated the unit = $300/month.
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health...insurance
What? lol. This was before "mandates".
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car insurance
Me & GF. $300/month. Not a typo. Clean driving record, too. frick LA.
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etc etc
?. Gas, water, electric all came to about $150/month. Window units are cheap when you only run the one in the room youre in.
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college?
Ummm....deferred loans?
Do you still live with your parents?
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 10:16 am
Posted on 1/17/18 at 11:40 am to Hester Carries
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Yeah me too....but because i went to college which my parents paid for.
Not everybody had that.
But that ain't the point. Point is that the youngins ain't leaving home. There are a lot of reasons for that, some economic. Sometimes the parents don't want to cut the cord. Sometimes it makes financial sense (of a sort) for the kid. But I don't see it as a real positive development for the future.
It's the "etc" in the list of expenses that bothers me. (Prepare for the you-kids-get-off-my-lawn). The younger folks look at things like cable and wifi and lattes as a birthright. I knew a dude who lived in a one-room on Chimes Street with no indoor plumbing, taking showers in the nearby stadium dorms and eating rice sandwiches when the money got low. I wasn't that poor (I had plumbing), but I did realize that there was shite I couldn't afford if I wanted to get my degree. I don't see a lot of folks in the younger generation who would be willing or able to bust arse like that.
Blame who you want. The problem is real.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:18 pm to JudgeHolden
The etc was phone bill, groceries, power bill, water bill, gas... You know, necessities?
This has nothing to do with old fricks thinking millennials treat cable and lattes like a birthright. What an ignorant statement.
This has nothing to do with old fricks thinking millennials treat cable and lattes like a birthright. What an ignorant statement.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:21 pm to TH03
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What an ignorant statement.
So enlighten me, King Solomon. What does it have to do with?
You don't pay for phones, power, water, and gas when you live in the shitty dorms. And you eat in the cafeteria on the meal plan during the week and eat ramen noodles on the weekend.
My sense is that very few American millennials are willing to live like that. A whole slew of people from my generation were.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:27 pm to IM4LSUTIGERS
18 when i graduated high school and left
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:27 pm to JudgeHolden
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You don't pay for phones
Cell phones? It's not the 70s anymore. Cell phones are essential.
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gas
You don't drive just because you live in a dorm?
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ramen
Cheap but not free
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My sense is that very few American millennials are willing to live like that. A whole slew of people from my generation were.
And this is absurd old man yells at sky shite
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:30 pm to JudgeHolden
I moved out when I was 21. My parents weren't paying for my tuition (pre Tops) and an apartment or dorm when they lived about 12 miles from campus. I finally made enough money at the end of my JR year to rent a shitty apartment right across from El Cid. I think it was $375 per month
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:34 pm to FLObserver
18. Everyone did at that time whether you were working or going to college. Independence was paramount
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:55 pm to TH03
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You don't drive just because you live in a dorm?
Didn't have a car. Bike or walk. Took the Greyhound back home.
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And this is absurd old man yells at sky shite
Which doesn't make it wrong.
You are pretty judgmental. So tell me your hard luck story, Ernest Shackleton.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:00 pm to JudgeHolden
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You are pretty judgmental
What? You're literally judging an entire generation because you think everyone should live a hard life because you did and millennials are too good to live a modest life.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:01 pm to FLObserver
The day after my 19th birthday. I was ecstatic and scared shitless at the same time.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:04 pm to FLObserver
Been in my own more or less since my grandmother died when I was 14. Bounced around from place to place living with different relatives on my fathers side. Spent time living in different parts of north Alabama, Alaska, and Georgia. Even spent a little time homeless, although not too many nights spent sleeping in a park. Most of the time I’d crash at friends houses for a few days until their parents decided it was time I moved on.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:05 pm to TH03
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What? You're literally judging an entire generation because you think everyone should live a hard life because you did and millennials are too good to live a modest life.
Not really. I am saying that the American kids of college age today would largely be unwilling or unable to do what we did back in the day.
Despite that, my sense is that many of them were born on third base and think they hit a home run. My sense is that many of them want checklists, compartmentalized responsibility, and lavish praise for modest accomplishment. That's my judgment.
It's not every young person. It's just more of them than I saw coming up. That's what I'm saying. You can agree or disagree. That's up to you.
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:05 pm to JudgeHolden
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But that ain't the point. Point is that the youngins ain't leaving home. There are a lot of reasons for that, some economic. Sometimes the parents don't want to cut the cord. Sometimes it makes financial sense (of a sort) for the kid. But I don't see it as a real positive development for the future.
It's probably your generation's fault for not giving them the boot when it's time.
I lived at home through undergrad, but when I graduated, got a full-time job and was still in grad school full-time, my parents said either pay rent or get your own place.
To hell with paying rent in my parents' house at that point. I got my own place.
Anyone who is out of college and still living at their parents', or was never in college and living at their parents' is the fault of the parents for not giving that kid the boot to figure it out on their own.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:06 pm to Cowboyfan89
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It's probably your generation's fault for not giving them the boot when it's time.
No doubt this is a factor.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:09 pm to JudgeHolden
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My sense is that very few American millennials are willing to live like that.
Your sense is bullshite and quite frankly insulting. Btw living in dorms and having money to pay for a meal plan was the comparatively more expensive way to do things given my options. How entitled people of your generation must have been
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:12 pm to Peazey
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Btw living in dorms and having money to pay for a meal plan was the comparatively more expensive way to do things given my options.
I find that hard to believe. Sorry you were insulted.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:12 pm to FLObserver
17, went in the Army.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:18 pm to FLObserver
It was 1981 and I was seventeen. Joined the Army and have never looked back.
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