Not to mention that if young White people can't afford to live in places like NYC
Here's the worst thing: they can't afford to live in their home towns either, because it's almost the same price as living in a city, and there aren't any entry-level jobs that pay well enough to ever possibly allow them to buy a house. Particularly since 2020, home prices everywhere have skyrocketed.
People always forget that relatively most places in America are pretty fucked equally when it comes to "Available jobs to cost of living." Certain cities are obviously more fucked, but fucked nonetheless.
Sure Bumfuck, Kentucky might have a 4bed and 10 acre property for 100k, but unless you know a guy or have a very specific trade skill you are going to be working for very little out of the available job pool. Whereas a major city will charge you millions for a home, but it also has a lot of jobs that theoretically you can get to support yourself.
Its just another point against little Benji's mindset. It treats rural and quiet towns as these bustling lands of opportunity, when the reason why people left them for big cities in the first place was because you had little to pick from to begin with. Unless you are starting a farm or similar home business, most of the jobs are already spoken for.
And rent prices are so absolutely batshit insane that it’s hard to even try and get a nest egg for a house. My wife and I are at this stage and it seems whenever we have the cash to start thinking about a house, something pops up that drains half the money from the account
Here's the worst thing: they can't afford to live in their home towns either, because it's almost the same price as living in a city, and there aren't any entry-level jobs that pay well enough to ever possibly allow them to buy a house. Particularly since 2020, home prices everywhere have skyrocketed.
People always forget that relatively most places in America are pretty fucked equally when it comes to "Available jobs to cost of living." Certain cities are obviously more fucked, but fucked nonetheless.
Sure Bumfuck, Kentucky might have a 4bed and 10 acre property for 100k, but unless you know a guy or have a very specific trade skill you are going to be working for very little out of the available job pool. Whereas a major city will charge you millions for a home, but it also has a lot of jobs that theoretically you can get to support yourself.
Its just another point against little Benji's mindset. It treats rural and quiet towns as these bustling lands of opportunity, when the reason why people left them for big cities in the first place was because you had little to pick from to begin with. Unless you are starting a farm or similar home business, most of the jobs are already spoken for.
And rent prices are so absolutely batshit insane that it’s hard to even try and get a nest egg for a house. My wife and I are at this stage and it seems whenever we have the cash to start thinking about a house, something pops up that drains half the money from the account