Why is it not sinking into some baby boomers thick skulls that the housing market is screwed up right now?
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Baby boomers are in there 80s right now
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swirlie · 31-35, F
@rocknroll
No, you keep coming up wrong here!
The baby boomer generation are the 60 and 70 year olds, not the 70 & 80 year olds!
The baby boom generation started in 1946 and ended in 1964.
That would make anyone born in 1946 exactly 78 years old, not 80 as you say.
That would also make anyone born in 1964 exactly 60 years old
No, you keep coming up wrong here!
The baby boomer generation are the 60 and 70 year olds, not the 70 & 80 year olds!
The baby boom generation started in 1946 and ended in 1964.
That would make anyone born in 1946 exactly 78 years old, not 80 as you say.
That would also make anyone born in 1964 exactly 60 years old
Yourguyinthecity · 51-55, M
Unholymanswers · 26-30, M
@Yourguyinthecity On the price of everything.
Yourguyinthecity · 51-55, M
@Unholymanswers No argument from me. That’s a fact!
Deceased · M
I swear to god if Genocide Joe says "Let them eat cake" we all should riot. One case in which I think we should follow the French's lead.
OogieBoogie · F
Because many, (not all, but many), live in this protected bubble:
Retired
Unaware
Comfortable
Set for life
Don't care
They think coz this generation has Internet, and games, and instant food and uber.....they have it easy.
They have no idea .
This generation has been labled " the landlord generation" for a reason.
Most will NEVER own a house .
Once upon a time - a house was equal to a years wage .
Now its half a million smackaroos
Retired
Unaware
Comfortable
Set for life
Don't care
They think coz this generation has Internet, and games, and instant food and uber.....they have it easy.
They have no idea .
This generation has been labled " the landlord generation" for a reason.
Most will NEVER own a house .
Once upon a time - a house was equal to a years wage .
Now its half a million smackaroos
OogieBoogie · F
@OldGrandDad i dont know where you are, but here, in the 1980's a average outter suburban house was $35 - 40 000.
Which was an averge middle class per annum wage.
Now its just crazy. Those houses are $500 000 now😒
Which was an averge middle class per annum wage.
Now its just crazy. Those houses are $500 000 now😒
OldGrandDad · M
@OogieBoogie Perhaps my view is jaded because I spent 20 years, including nearly all the 80s, serving and getting paid the meager wages of our US military. I never saw $35-40K until after I got out. At that point my home purchase cost me $172K.
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Unholymanswers · 26-30, M
@swirlie Nobody said anything about throwing them out of their houses.
swirlie · 31-35, F
@Renaci
You sound like a wannabe Right-wing Republican. If you could only qualified for citizenship in the USA, you'd fit right in there with the best of those poor people.
Looking back in a Google search to about 1970 when all those baby boomers were making money hand over fist and having the world handed to them on a silver platter as you said, I see the minimum legal working wage back then was posted at $1.50 an hour in Canada, which would be about the same or less in the USA at the time.
I'm just curious to know how a baby boomer in either country could have bought a house on $1.50 an hour and only worked one job to do it as you are also inferring was the case?
Would you explain that one to us, oh brilliant one?
You sound like a wannabe Right-wing Republican. If you could only qualified for citizenship in the USA, you'd fit right in there with the best of those poor people.
Looking back in a Google search to about 1970 when all those baby boomers were making money hand over fist and having the world handed to them on a silver platter as you said, I see the minimum legal working wage back then was posted at $1.50 an hour in Canada, which would be about the same or less in the USA at the time.
I'm just curious to know how a baby boomer in either country could have bought a house on $1.50 an hour and only worked one job to do it as you are also inferring was the case?
Would you explain that one to us, oh brilliant one?