The point is to move out if you want to act like an adult. That is a reasonable request, though I am sympathetci to the cries of today's youth that rent is no longer 250 a month, however the oil fields exist.
Yeah I’ve got a late-20s friend in that situation and it blows my mind how ridiculous rent has gotten. It’s more than doubled since I moved to the area close to 15 years ago, and the pay certainly hasn’t.
The only thing I fault him for that seems to be a trend is he’s never doing anything to better career prospects. I think if I were in the position of approaching 30 with a girlfriend and a kid I’d be working towards some kind of mechanical qualification, likely something like A&P (airplane) mechanic. Community college here is really really cheap. Is that for everyone, no, but its highly employable and fits things I enjoy. There’s plenty of similar things that fit other people if they get past wanting to follow their unemployable passions and dreams. I just couldn’t imagine being one of these 30-something’s living with parents and working whatever job comes around having not even tried to better my situation.
There are plenty of places with cheap rent. I don’t buy the boomer “bootstrap” argument but I don’t buy the zoomer “muh rent” excuse either.
At the start of a life, one should expect less-than-ideal conditions. I lived in a rooming house for the first year of my independence until I upgraded to a nice studio apartment with my first tax refund, and so on and so forth. (Interesting anecdote: a guy died in the room next to mine and I notified the owner of the stench, after which she entered the room, revealing a rotting corpse set upon by roaches.)
Maybe some of the older stay-at-home types have unrealistic expectations about independent life.
The point is to move out if you want to act like an adult. That is a reasonable request, though I am sympathetci to the cries of today's youth that rent is no longer 250 a month, however the oil fields exist.
Yeah I’ve got a late-20s friend in that situation and it blows my mind how ridiculous rent has gotten. It’s more than doubled since I moved to the area close to 15 years ago, and the pay certainly hasn’t.
The only thing I fault him for that seems to be a trend is he’s never doing anything to better career prospects. I think if I were in the position of approaching 30 with a girlfriend and a kid I’d be working towards some kind of mechanical qualification, likely something like A&P (airplane) mechanic. Community college here is really really cheap. Is that for everyone, no, but its highly employable and fits things I enjoy. There’s plenty of similar things that fit other people if they get past wanting to follow their unemployable passions and dreams. I just couldn’t imagine being one of these 30-something’s living with parents and working whatever job comes around having not even tried to better my situation.
IDK what to tell my cousins in California. They are working real tech jobs that require a degree and are living with their parents.
Other than leave California. That's what I did. I have a real tech job, but I can afford a house because I don't live in California.
There are plenty of places with cheap rent. I don’t buy the boomer “bootstrap” argument but I don’t buy the zoomer “muh rent” excuse either.
At the start of a life, one should expect less-than-ideal conditions. I lived in a rooming house for the first year of my independence until I upgraded to a nice studio apartment with my first tax refund, and so on and so forth. (Interesting anecdote: a guy died in the room next to mine and I notified the owner of the stench, after which she entered the room, revealing a rotting corpse set upon by roaches.)
Maybe some of the older stay-at-home types have unrealistic expectations about independent life.
Aight. My rent was 250 when I moved out. For half a room in a larger house. But still.