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re: Millennial baws, how you hanging on?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:41 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:41 pm to GetCocky11
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Well from the other thread, we're apparently holding ourselves back by having a cell phone, subscription to Netflix, and not living in a single wide trailer in the rural parts of our various states.
You probably are..
Everybody wants everything now.
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:42 pm to deltaland
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2018 Caravelle Interceptor. 24 ft with the 6.2L thru hull straight exhaust. It’ll run about 75mph
Ah, nice! We've got a 2012 MasterCraft X15 that'll do about 38mph with no weight in it and a flat lake. She's made for pulling, not speed.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:42 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Because young adults act like they are the first people to ever be poor and WAH WAH WAH, it's just so hard. They act like literally no one ever scrimped and saved before and that because Gen X and Boomers are doing pretty well now, we must have been this way forever. NOPE. Y'all act like being poor means your have to down Starbucks to only once a week or not go out to eat 2-3 times a week.
Being poor in the 80s must’ve been sick like a car was like 100 bucks a 4 story house was like 7k
If you’re thirsty you could go drink from a river and if you’re hungry you could go kill a buffalo. That was before boomers destroyed the environment
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:45 pm to LaLadyinTx
quote:sounds pretty poor tbh
Y'all act like being poor means your have to down Starbucks to only once a week or not go out to eat 2-3 times a week.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:45 pm to LaLadyinTx
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You don't know what you're talking about
Lady, you’re poor mouthing yourself when you made more than most people lmao.
Yall weren’t poor or anything close to it. Yall did significantly better than most people in 1984. 34k was nearly 30% more than median household income.
I think it is YOU who does not know what they are talking about.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:46 pm to LaLadyinTx
quote:This is always a great talking point.
Because much of the 80s wasn't what y'all think. Huge recession and oil and gas market crashed. Interest rates were much higher (try a 15% mortgage?) then. You don't know what you're talking about. People were saving for years to buy a house.
Interest rates were high but prices were SIGNIFICANTLY lower.
I would gladly take the lower prices of the 70s/80s, the lower pay of the 70s/80s, and the higher interest rates, compared to now where, yes, the interest rates are not as high, but the cost of everything is substantially higher.
So, in summation, that isn’t some big horrible situation.
Another wonderful bit of data, in the 1980s, the average age of first time homebuyers was approximately 6 years lower than it is now.
So, with the apparent “horrible” economic situation of the 80s, people could still purchase homes at younger ages than they can now.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:47 pm to el Gaucho
You definitely could kill buffalo as long as you didnt die of dysentery first
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:51 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Every boomer still complains about the 15% note on their 3k house from the 80s that’s now worth 500k
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:51 pm to sonoma8
Dysentery got my uncle Ezekiel near Chimney Rock back in 87. This used to be a great country. Nirvana and the telephone tore this place apart.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:52 pm to el Gaucho
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Every boomer still complains about the 15% note on their 3k house from the 80s that’s now worth 500k
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:52 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Because much of the 80s wasn't what y'all think. Huge recession and oil and gas market crashed.
Wtf do you think younger people have been dealing with? They have dealt with the same things with the housing situation being completely awful.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:55 pm to LSUAlum2001
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Well from the other thread, we're apparently holding ourselves back by having a cell phone, subscription to Netflix, and not living in a single wide trailer in the rural parts of our various states. You probably are.. Everybody wants everything now.
Damn millennials need to just eat the bugs, get in the pod, own nothing, and be happy like us boomers did back in the 80’s when a blue collar worker with a stay at home wife who owned a home while supporting multiple kids was considered a low-class loser.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:55 pm to kingbob
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Currently doing injury defense work. Not my favorite part of la
I don’t know much about lawyer stuff. I thought that was the fun one, injury defense? Or maybe it’s criminal defense I’m thinking of? What’s the one that gets played on tv all the time?
Sorry, I’ve always wished I could be a lawyer and be a great defense attorney but I have horrible stage fright with public speaking. I had no idea you are an attorney. I assume you are a good one, it doesn’t feel good to assist people who need your help?Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:55 pm to bamaguy17
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Yet, I’m successful. Keep trying baw, you’ll get here
You’re successful. I’m successful. But the world is falling apart. I don’t want that for my kids so it would be nice if we successful people tried to think just a little bit deeper than the surface.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:57 pm to Mushroom1968
You’re thinking of criminal defense, and no. I’m usually not defending people who need help. I’m defending the people who allegedly hurt the people asking for help. A lot of those claims are bullshite, but I defend against a lot of legit claims too.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:57 pm to el Gaucho
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Every boomer still complains about the 15% note on their 3k house from the 80s that’s now worth 500k
You’ve been on a roll
Good one
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:57 pm to el Gaucho
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Being poor in the 80s must’ve been sick like a car was like 100 bucks a 4 story house was like 7k
If you’re thirsty you could go drink from a river and if you’re hungry you could go kill a buffalo. That was before boomers destroyed the environment
Nice to hear revisionist history from a delusional millennial. I think you're talking about the 50s or earlier.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:59 pm to kingbob
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boomers did back in the 80’s when a blue collar worker with a stay at home wife who owned a home while supporting multiple kids was considered a low-class loser.
To be fair starting in the 70s they kinda hollowed out the blue collar economy by offshoring manufacturing and made it to where most places if you have kids you have to send them to private school (I’m not gonna elaborate why) but I don’t think that’s the boomers fault
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:00 pm to LaLadyinTx
What was your mortgage like back in the mid 80’s. I would like to run it through the inflation calculator to continue showing you just how much better off you were back then vs most millennials today.
You criticize millennials for not being willing to make the same sacrifices you did to support your family back then, when in reality, you were making significantly more money and sacrificing significantly less than most of the people you deride.
You clearly have little understanding of math or inflation, or you would have already owned your mistake and stopped preaching your bootstraps, avocado toast, coffee bullsh&t.
You criticize millennials for not being willing to make the same sacrifices you did to support your family back then, when in reality, you were making significantly more money and sacrificing significantly less than most of the people you deride.
You clearly have little understanding of math or inflation, or you would have already owned your mistake and stopped preaching your bootstraps, avocado toast, coffee bullsh&t.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:01 pm to Scruffy
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I would gladly take the lower prices of the 70s/80s, the lower pay of the 70s/80s, and the higher interest rates, compared to now where, yes, the interest rates are not as high, but the cost of everything is substantially higher.
So, in summation, that isn’t some big horrible situation.
Another wonderful bit of data, in the 1980s, the average age of first time homebuyers was approximately 6 years lower than it is now.
So, with the apparent “horrible” economic situation of the 80s, people could still purchase homes at younger ages than they can now.
But would you be happy with the house that the much lower cost got you? I don't see any of my kid's friends buying houses smaller than 2000 square feet as a first time home buyer. I see many buying them that are at least 2500. Do you want that 1350 sq ft, 1 bathroom home? The one with window units and an attic fan that's 30-50 years old?
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