A story that i read I had to share " My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43. I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000. He said "so save up." I said the down payment alone is $82,000. He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces." I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month. He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet. Then he said something I didn't expect. "I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant." Then he just sat there for a second. "I always thought you kids were exaggerating." That's it. That's the whole conversation. He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number. Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it."

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Mainvolume is a company, but if by he you are referring to me, oh well, let’s see whether he gets a boner to make the gay community stronger.
the piece of plot my folks built a house on was less than $2000 in 2006 . today same size of plot is $80000
Yep see. . .they aren't bad they just ain't taking a serious look at things.
Welcome to the matrix, keep you enslaved and in line with what the government wants, control and submissive sheeple
Had similar conversation with my early gen x dad. I'm xennial generation. That said, 29 years ago I had the means to get a mortgage, but didnt want to tie myself to one place and one job for years as a kid. By the time I hit 30 price rises put it out of reach.
Accurate Your beliefs define what you notice & remember. I think a lot of people are blinded by their beliefs & they don't even realize that they have them. They can wake up but many are deeply caught in the story they've written in their head. This goes for all of us not just the boomers.
Boomers inherited the jobs of the industrial superpower their parents and grandparents built after surviving the Great Depression, and I think perhaps were a bit ungrateful about it. You'd think they'd see how awesome their parents were and be more appreciative. But no, they just bought their $25,000 3 bedroom homes and $3-5k cars and were kinda smug lol.
My dad is a Generation X, but he’s clever enough to see that we are pretty fucked up to own a piece of land / properties at some point 🥲
Lotta boomers in my life and observing them has been interesting over the years.. How they can be so blissfully unaware about so many things in the world and how they got that way is fascinating. As long as things are relatively cheap, convenient and they’re comfortable nothing seems to matter
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nix 1 week ago
Sometimes it is enough to move to another city. But yeah bottom line is do the math, then do what it takes to have prospects and progress... or agree to be a fiat slave. Yes it is harder for the current generation. It is many times harder if you were not born in the US.
I was in the UK visiting family and many people can barely afford a 1 bed apartment.. I remember being able to buy a 3 bed house at their age. Its a shame how overpriced shelter is. Buy to let isnt a business, its middle man landlording with huge government subsidies...
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Skater goy 1 week ago
It is nuts how confidently the assert stale advice without looking at any math. They do the same thing with dating in 2026. They’re definitely not intentionally malicious but there’s something deeply wrong about just being on autopilot while civilization collapses.