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"Let this year be over..."
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Originally Posted by okellies
My generation isn't asking for everything right away. We just want a fair shot, we want everything that all generations that have come before have had. A shot at having a family and a home, even if it is later in life (which is a huge trend I noticed. Many people having children in their late 20's-early 30's). We want a shot at success at work.
Your not the first generation who feels they deserve a fair shot my generation thought the post WWII generation had more opportunities than we did. But life is not a fair shot and one feature lost on the current youth in the concept of earning it, as you commented they have grown up in a everyone always wins and now they expect it. Parents and society probably is at fault but now that your an educated adult accept the fact that they lied, life doesn't work that way and you have to work to have your cake and eat it to.
If you can't get the shot for family and a home then move to where you can, you can always move back later if you choose. As for the trend of people have kids in their late 20's/early 30's that is the normal time most people choose to start their families. Those that wait till their late 30's/early 40's have done so because of career, relationships, realizing the clock is ticking but too often there are challenges both in conceiving a child and health. Having a father who was 48 when I was born was not that great and both of my kids were college grads the year I turned 50, much better.
Considering Long Island is an extension of NYC to a large extent perhaps that is the reason....
I may be wrong, but I believe Daisy's point stems from DeBlasio looking to decriminalize certain minor offenses which contribute to lowering QOL, such as public urination.
I may be wrong, but I believe Daisy's point stems from DeBlasio looking to decriminalize certain minor offenses which contribute to lowering QOL, such as public urination.
You're saying you bought a house big enough for 7 people at 23 and expectations are higher now? Really?
"Struggle" is a subjective term. Being given 35k and floating a mortgage payment of about 1,200 bucks (house large enough to offset costs with renters) doesn't sound like the least bit struggling to me. That sounds more like silver spoon and being handed it. In today's terms (where an average 23 year old is making less in overall terms than you did 15 years ago), I don't how you could consider the current state of things out of whack... and PS, your average 23 year old is saddled with college loans. Look at what's happened to the cost of an education in the past 15 years.
I'll save you the graphs.
The house I bought was about 1200sqft. Your kind would fine that terrible. The house was built in 1918. Many families lived there just fine. Your kind wouldn't be able to handle that because you are a special snowflake.
I may be wrong, but I believe Daisy's point stems from DeBlasio looking to decriminalize certain minor offenses which contribute to lowering QOL, such as public urination.
Precisely! The original article was 2 years ago and since then we have DiBlasio. There's some crazy stuff happening in NYC now due to very lax police enforcement of what were deemed QoL offenses. The progressive readers at the NYT suggested this week that the rise in public urination is due to too few public restrooms. My point was a glass house/throw stones one.
Young couples need to buy starter homes sub-400k if they want to be here. Those are not 5-digit taxes. Hell my one neighbor is only paying $8k taxes while we pay ~$15k in a good district. Work your way up and only when you have kids of age to make it worthwhile. You can't be 25yo and get everything you've ever wanted in a house for $400k just because you wish it were so, especially in NY. Maybe parents aren't teaching their kids about entitlement or something. Imagine strolling into San Francisco and announcing that you can afford $400k for a house and that you should have 2000sf nearly new with top schools just because you feel it's already a lot of money. "No, it doesn't work that way kid. I don't care how old you are, you pay the going rate like everybody else."
I think what the're not teaching them is financial literacy and about debt slavery...
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