This is the new and growing epidemic of the over educated and unemployed with instant unemployment degrees.
Neighbors across the street have had their daughter, SIL and grand child for over a year. He works and is paid well, but their daughter wants a premium home in the wine country on a blue collar income. The couples’s failure to launch son age 34-36 just finished another instant unemployment degree at UC Davis and has zero job opportunities.
Two other homes on our cul de sac are being refitted to handle adult children with young kids.
We had dinner with 3 couples this past Saturday. All 3 couples have move back in adult kids or failures to launch. One couple has a 40 something daughter, SIL and two grandkids at home for over a year and last week told another daughter, no room at the family inn. This couple is in their 80’s living off SS, small pensions and rapidly diminishing IRA’S.
Another couple’s daughter is back home with her future husband. She has 2 instant unemployment degrees, he has one, and both plan to work on master degrees in the instant unemployment areas where their degrees are. Their daughter has turned into the Queen of Bridezillas, and she expands the upcoming wedding costs on a daily/weekly basis.
The other couple has a failure to launch daughter, who is supposedly working with her dad. She is 24 and has never had a job with anybody besides her Dad.
Our sons and other younger relatives tell us about similiar unemployment situtations with people they know. In these groups, the liberals blame Bush, Cheney and Fox news. Most have worthless degrees and had jobs where they could fake it until the meltdown happened. Now, they are living at home with parents or in laws or headed that way. The independents in these groups are very bitter re Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the left wing congress.
Love this phrase.
What is a SIL?
I wonder as a side effect all these people living under one roof will have on the housing industry?
"The Greatest Generation" produced "The Baby Boomers" who in turn parented "The Boomerang Generation".
Just sayin...