Posted on 07/29/2020 7:25:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
quote “forget about buying a home in most large cities in the U.S”
well... there ya go! the answer is right there in the article! DONT LIVE IN A LARGE US CITY!
and PRESTO! you can afford a home!
“...shortages of basic supplies such as food, weapons, and blankets, British blockades and occupation, cold winters and disease, no basic utilities, TV or internet...oh wait, that was 1775. Yeah, todays youth face so much worse, have to feel sorry for them...[:o”
You are really making a dumb argument.
The millennials today really have been screwed. I see what my nieces and nephews have gone through and they have their heads on straight-college degrees, married no bad habits. Sky high home prices(unless you want to live in ghetto or white trash meth hoods and outrageous living expenses, expensive daycare, their jobs offshored or replaced by Singh Patel, many co’s going to 1099 subcontract labor so no bennies.
Is there any hope remaining that Millennials will “get woke” to the horror that awaits them if they don’t join in the fight to eradicate the Democrat/Left Party? I remain hopeful they just might, although I acknowledge that while Millennials complain about the crises that await them, a lot of them seem to relish in it!
bingo!
when they say they can’t afford a home... what they are really saying is they cant afford a McMansion! they could easily afford a 2 bedroom 1 bath home with no AC and a gally kitchen like they point out people “used” to be able to buy!
When their safety nets (mom and dad) are gone, they will find themselves right behind the 8 ball.
They’re squandering precious time and effort trying to subvert the ‘system’.
The system they oppose, holds the very success or failure for their entire future. Getting a late or a stumbling start on that is devastating and could irreversibly stack the deck against them.
They will have made themselves wards of the state forever and WE will pick up the tab for THEM, too.
“well... there ya go! the answer is right there in the article! DONT LIVE IN A LARGE US CITY!
and PRESTO! you can afford a home!”
Problem is the nice career job’s you can actually retire with are only available in the larger metropolitan areas.
I live in a semi rural area-towns are 5-8k in pop size. Yeah houses are cheap. Problem is Jobs. There are no decent ones. Yeah there are plenty of help wanted signs. average 10-12 hr tops, most p/t and no benefits
My son just graduated with a BS in Biotechnology.
He had less than $20K in debt.
He was hired by a major Pharma company last month making $60K straight out of college.
If you got a computer science or engineering degree you wouldn’t have these problems.
ah! but that’s the thing! what you are describing is opportunity to start your own business, which is how most people gain wealth. That is a very small town though I will admit, the best opportunities lie in mid size towns under 500,000 people but above 50,000 and growing.
“When you pour 60 million people into the country over a 40 year period and keep letting in 2 million more every year it ends up in absurd prices for housing and low wages because of the intense competition.”
Don’t forget the outsourcing of manufacturing and wanted destruction of manufacturing unions. The environmentalists whose actions resulted in jobs going to places that are causing even more environmental damage. The worst environmental tragedies have occurred in communist/socialist countries.
Blessed are those Americans whom employ and provide for other Americans. The people of this Nation need to remember what works.
yep, people can go to the local community college that costs almost nothing, get a USEFUL degree and be earning great money in a few years with no debt.
The not spoken about secret about H1-B’s:
If you are in a STEM field you compete with ‘guest workers’ and illegals who work for less than you can legally run a car.
And if you are lucky enough to get work you ‘age out’ at 30 - 35.
Its not a dumb argument. Every generation before todays spoiled brat generation had it tougher but made the best of what they had and built a better life. Not all, but the whiny component in general of the generations since the fall of the soviet union, have been nothing but ‘me, me, me’ in terms of believing they need instant gratification, a house that most earlier generations wouldnt see until they had 40 years of work behind them (if at all), a cushy job where no labor (or thinking) is involved, and no need to save for their own retirement.
Sky high home prices(unless you want to live in ghetto or white trash meth hoods
um.. try living in a mid size city of a few hundred thousand instead of a liberal hell hole.
and outrageous living expenses,
same answer as the above
expensive daycare,
no day care required when the wife stays home
their jobs offshored or replaced by Singh Patel,
it’s America start your own business
many cos going to 1099 subcontract labor so no bennies.
cant blaim them, you can thank liberals for that. Again, it’s America I encourage them to start their own business in a mid size city in a conservative state.
Based upon your comments no wonder conservatives get the rap as heartless bastards.
Your generation didn’t have to compete with millions of LEGAL immigrants, some of them indentured servants ( H,L visas), flooding into the US every year.
heartless for pointing out the solutions to all the problems?
If you CHOOSE to live in a liberal hell hole, you will pay for that.
Sorry if that makes me sound heartless.
One problem, the neighborhoods that those homes are in are high crime drug infested run down near ghettos. I don't even want to talk about the public schools in those places...
I live in a mid size city in Texas. A nice home (brand new brick 4 bedroom) here in a good neighborhood with amazing schools costs about $150,000. You can get a degree at the local community college for $5,550 a year and be offered a job after 2 years earning 60-80K straight out of school.
If giving out good advice and offering solutions is cruel and heartless .. then YEP! I am
***Articles 1st point. Many decades since one income pays all the bills. This has been true throughout my lifetime.***
I guess my husband and I dont exist. We have always lived off of one income. At first, I was the bread winner. He worked a 100% commission job hoping to score big. That didnt happen. At night he went to grad school.
Then the first kid came. He got a better job. I stayed home with the baby. Then another baby, then another. We remained a one income family from the mid-80s up to and including the present day.
It wasnt easy to make ends meet every month, but we had a strict budget and lived within those means. We still do it that way. We arent fancy, and dont live extravagantly.
Over the years we have managed to go from paycheck to paycheck to socking away a little more each month. Now we have a good savings account, and hopefully he can retire in the next 5 years.
Plan the work, and work the plan.
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