Still, how many 18 year olds buy a house? It's called an apartment...it's called a roommate...it's called doing what it takes to make it happen, i.e. working your hind end off so that you can afford a house.
And if you can't make it in Denver, North Dallas, or Austin, you MOVE to a place where you can make it.
Sadly we are wanting youngster to follow tech jobs to keep up with other countries and it is places like that where the tech jobs are at right now.
Easy to say move when you look at a significant pay cut moving to a smaller venue not to mention the high tech networking of your peers. If you work at Wal-Mart that might be feasible, but are Wal-Mart employees the ones buying houses without wheels, nope.
Don't know about those places, but here you would need several roommates just to pay rent. Then there's food ($3 for a loaf of bread, a buck for a bottle of water (you can't drink the tap water), and utilites.
Somebody is living a grand life, but it isn't the younger generation. And how are they supposed to make a living, unless they flip burgers. All of the real jobs either are extinct, or went overseas. If it ain't plastic and made in China, you can't find it. And then you can't afford it.
The problem is most of these kids want to START OUT where their parents ended up. They want a three bedroom house on a half acre in a tony suburb without working for it.
Screw that mindset.
Well said.
I have one married child and another who is sharing a house with two other guys. They're learning what it's like to be an adult and they're all maturing a little. They're finding out what work is, that the bills must be paid and that it's up to them what kind of life they lead.
It's called growing up.