Stop blaming it on wages. This is a backwards mindset. Why should wages be forced up as a result of government created by inflation and policy/spending? Why doesn’t the government follow the economy? You see how one is backwards?

An economy can’t keep up with an out of control government. This is where the wage arguments against capitalism get debunked. Marxism is literal backwardness

Yall love to make excuses on why ppl are living in their moms basement

You can blame millenials for being soft or whatever, but sometimes people just simply adapt to current environments and situations that they are put in.

Where I live, the average condo is 700K. Moving out of the city isn't really an option either bc mostly all the jobs are concentrated in the city and even those houses outside the city are pretty expensive. Doubt people have a 150K+ down payment lying around, not to mention having to pay a 2500+ a month mortgage, cost of homeowner ship, etc. That's tough if you aren't clearing 7K+ a month after taxes. Which is around a 120K salary. Median income here is like 50K so even with a dual income this is difficult for a lot of people.

Long gone are the days in the 90s where you could afford a house on a single 40K salary and pay off your tuition with a minimum wage job. Had this been the current reality alot more millennials would have houses for sure.

People make fun of it, but really it's the best way to build a family and generational wealth for the future. Lmao @ people being a bunch of poor, rent-cels with zero savings which is pretty much the alternative unless you have a 100K+ job. This is how phucking poverty and crime happens. Not to mention if you need to take care of your parents in the future, you will likely have that wealth.

With that said though I think it's worth it to have some years under your belt where you live alone so it teaches you responsibility. Then spend a good part of your 20s with your parents if they don't mind, allow you to and as long as you pay some of your share. Spend 5 years or so saving like crazy and trying to climb the job ladder. Hopefully by then you'll have a decent job and have 125K+ saved. Hookermaxxx bc lets be honest most miscers even if they had a house wouldn't be getting pussy anyways. Women will fuk you regardless if you live in a cardboard box if you are a chad.

At least your money would be going to YOUR PARENTS rather than for some scummy landlord's trip to the Dominican. When they pass on, presumably part of that wealth goes to you and your siblings if you have any. And now you can start the cycle once again of building up generational wealth. Unless we just don't believe in marriage and kids in 2022.

Alot of people are just doing what is needed to get ahead.

If your net worth is $1000 and your parents net worth is $1000, if you give them $100 your family networth is unchanged, however you get poorer and your parents get richer

Imagine trying to profit off your own child.

just LOL at American family values

If your net worth is $1000 and your parents net worth is $1000, if you give them $100 your family networth is unchanged, however you get poorer and your parents get richer

Imagine trying to profit off your own child.

just LOL at American family values

The low IQ and fearful of the Boomers and slightly older have really screwed younger generations. Back in the Bush presidency he pushed hard to let Social Security be partly privatized. Rather than be the complete transfer program that it is, young people could invest part (up to 40% over time I believe) of their SS money into safe investment options. They'd earn 4-6% a year on average and decades later have a nice nest egg waiting for them on top of guaranteed money from the SS they'd be getting from the government every month. Over the course of a few decades they'd retire with hundreds of thousands more dollars than just regular old Social Security checks. It would have cut down on future elderly poverty a hell of a lot.

-The olds wouldn't listen to the fact that they themselves would still be getting their SS the same as before. The olds won.
-Meanwhile, just a few years prior the olds had just gotten a new benefit, Medicare part D to save them money on prescriptions. Something they never had to pay into.
-LOL @ American family values, indeed.
Selfish, low IQ.

And the other 50% are financially retarded. If you move out of home before your mid to late 20s in this day and age, you are a certified retard of the highest order (ded fkn srs).

Only exceptions being if you have to move far away for work or you unfortunately have a bad relationship with your family.

I know a handful of people who left home and started rentcelling from 20 or so. All have no worthwhile education, work absolutely dead end jobs and are on the verge of roping.

If your net worth is $1000 and your parents net worth is $1000, if you give them $100 your family networth is unchanged, however you get poorer and your parents get richer

Imagine trying to profit off your own child.

just LOL at American family values

As long as wages stagnate, jobs disappear, and real estate keeps going up, 50 percent is nothing.

If you only have a net worth of a 1,000 dollars in your 20s, then you're probably not gonna make it......

Had a negative net worth in my 20's, multimillionaire in my 30's. Please go on though.

All ****ing losers


Reality of what internet has done to this generation. Previously if you were 20+ you were dying to get freedom

I'm sure you are.......

I don't think it makes you a loser if you live at home to girls but it is generally seen as a positive if you're financially independent or able to be



Exactly. Living on your own isn't all that great for most people

It's better to live with a gf, friends or family

I'm 32, live by myself and work 1 single hour a month. I was in such financial disaster at 27 that I bought a campervan (actually my dad helped me pay for it and I eventually paid him back... he also took on all my CC debt and paid it off, but I had to pay all that back too, and did... TBH I would be ****ed without my dad's help and it sucks not everyone can have that).

Anyway I traveled the country in a campervan and found a remote spot in the mountains away from everyone, but still had enough cell service to work. I built out my freelance writing business from there because I had 0 distractions and needed to make something happen. I eventually built out a team to manage it for me.

I've gone through spurts of ambitionmaxxing making 12k+ a month but I hated my life and all that stress. Now I just let my team do their thing and I take my cut of 50k/year and I do whatever I want all day every day -- I sleep as many hours as I please, I do whatever my body wants based on the season... right now it's winter and my body and mind just want to relax, so I sit at home on the computer or play video games and I eat pizza, steak, ice cream, w/e the **** my body wants. I feel like it's in a hibernation mode and I just allow it to happen.

In the spring I start to get the urge to be active again, so I get a golf membership and I golf literally every single day barring heavy rain, and I walk all 18 for the exercise.

This is the ideal way of life to me. I don't care about career, I don't care about money past what allows me to live the lifestyle I enjoy, I don't care about having nice material things (though I would like a nicer car soon for dependability reasons).

And actually a few weeks ago I did start working a few hours a week to make a few extra hundred bucks here or there since I have so much downtime in the winter and like I said I'd like to get a nicer vehicle.

I used to struggle caring what other people think about my lifestyle, and that they would perceive me as lower class, but I don't care anymore. I think they're all the idiots for buying **** on credit and acting like it's theirs, further tying themselves to the rat race where they must work or lose all their precious things they couldn't afford in the first place. It's laughable to me that I could be more respected for having a $200/mo car payment as if that's some kind of achievement. ANYONE can afford 200/mo for a car payment unless you're in actual poverty, and you don't even own it! Just lmao at the whole system and lol at anyone who doesn't see the absurdity of all of it.

We're all gonna die the same. Maximize your enjoyment every day and fukk everything else.

Who wants to share a room with their brother/brothers, or a bathroom with 5 other people???

Parent profiting off their child = piece of chit
Child not helping their parents financially = piece of chit

Americans in general fit the bill on both of these.

brb kicking out your kids at 18
brb making your kids pay rent

just LOL

Who shares a room with their sibling past the age of 3? Or only has one bathroom in a family home?

It should have been clear that my advice was not pertaining to you if your family lives in a trailer park

Everyone who doesn't have "first world problems".

Telling us that your 25 year old kid shouldn't he paying rent?

to all the miscers bringing examples how "rEsT oF tHE woRld" doesnt kick their kids out by 18, well umm do you realize that the so-called rest of the world mostly consists of chitty poor countries? In rich countries like Norway and Sweden (and ofc US) kids move out early. So youre saying that we should take lesson from chitty poor countries?

How can a man in his 20s (23 & upwards) or 30s with an active social and love life enjoy living at home?

When I got to my parents house it's comfortable butwhat is comfortable is not necessarily good for you.

If you're a single man with no kids and a good paying job, it really isn't that hard to get a condo. I rented for a couple years before I bought my first home and looking back on those times it was honestly the best experience of my life.

I can't imagine sl00ts coming to my apartment at 2am to smash if I was still living in my childhood bedroom.

Anyone who would consider charging their future kid rent to live in the family home should be forcibly sterilized