ryukodragon:

lasrina:

sulasaferoom:

zetsubonna:

firelightmystic:

kaijuno:

“Starter house”?????? We’re supposed to have more than one house???????

So now you want to listen to what we’ve been hollering about since before fucking Occupy Wallstreet?????

They started us off $35k+ in student loan debt, paid us ‘70s wages, charged us modern prices, and then couldn’t understand why we were broke.

Is “no shit, sherlock?” still an acceptable answer?

Oh, the “starter house” thing. This is what you used to do when you were just starting out: you bought a house for just you and your spouse. You sold it to a younger couple and moved into a bigger house no later than the birth of your first or second kid. By that time, you were supposed to have been promoted and gotten a raise or two, at least… oh, and by the way, that raise was to be big enough that you could not only afford that bigger house, you could afford it on one salary, because that was when your wife stopped working to stay home with the kids.

That’s how my grandparents (immediately post-WWII) did it. That’s how my parents (mid-1970s) did it. Oh, and the third house my parents ever purchased, when they upgraded to a still affordable but spacious and very nice one, when I was a preteen? The purchase price was maybe 1.5 times my dad’s salary, with payments spread out over a 30-year mortgage.

But yeah, Millennials, who mostly weren’t even born the last time this was feasible, are the ones who are ruining everything.

As frustratingly obvious as this is to many of us, just remember that these studies are GOOD!

This is proving what is really happening! Studies like this will start real discussions on making change. Even if it takes a while yet, this is another step forward!