re: Major social unrest is coming

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haven't seen any new construction of 2 BR homes in, well, forever. Was born way after that. All I ever see is the 2-3-4 story condos and personally I'd never want to live on top or below someone else.

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In south Louisiana outside of cities they can’t build these neighborhoods fast enough.

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Probably not a welder and cashier

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What? ??? Now it makes sense. You are so disconnected from reality in your big city bubble you have no idea what goes on in the real world.

Even the suburbs here in Dallas are charging $400k for an entry level new build. My parents bought a 4-2-2.5 2-story new build in the same area for $122k in 1990. The entry level homes in a new subdivision were easily under $100k. Home builders are building HUGE McMansions in new subdivisions in suburbs 20 miles out from city center and that’s it. There are no affordable entry level homes being built unless you want to move 40 miles out.

That leaves older homes that might go for cheaper but need updates/work putting a buyer in the same range for mortgage and remodeling.

There’s something wrong with the fact that that $122k house my folks built is going for $400k on a small lot. That’s 300% increase over 30 years. There’s no way a college grad can afford that.

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What? ??? Now it makes sense. You are so disconnected from reality in your big city bubble you have no idea what goes on in the real world.

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In your rush to make me out a fool, you have turned yourself into one.

I was saying that this is what MY PARENTS were…yet they still managed to purchase a home in 1972 that would be totally out of reach for that same couple today.

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Honest question here:

If some savvy businessman started building the TINY homes that were mass built post WW2, would young people buy them?

I haven't seen any new construction of 2 BR homes in, well, forever. Was born way after that. All I ever see is the 2-3-4 story condos and personally I'd never want to live on top or below someone else.

Would millennials live in these types of homes if someone started building them in newly developed areas?

I probably would to be honest. Hard to find smaller houses like that except in marginal neighborhoods anymore.

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I think so. because as you said its hard to find anything approaching reasonably affordable outside of a marginal sketchy neighborhood, which would just end up being another debt trap sinking equity into a shithole neighborhood.

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Still amazed you think so poorly of blue collar workers. They outwork and out-earn your office chair sitting arse.

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You are complete imbecile.

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$26K in 1972.

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$178,000 today with inflation (probably more)

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Until you account for the fact that that $400,000 house today cost less than $200 15 years ago when I bought my first house

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So then, here’s a thought, look in another area.

Nope…I said a welder & cashier in my hometown couldn’t afford the same home today that my parents did in 1972.

As to plant baws having nice homes in the river, I said they probably aren’t welders or they had family money to help.

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It seems you get your picture of a the prototypical millennial from cable news. When you say things like this, it let's me know you aren't a serious person.

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I'm completely serious. It's easily the weakest, whiniest, laziest, most spoiled generation this country has ever seen.

Prove me wrong.