Current Events > This article is sad and is about pretty much all of you guys

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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/quarter-millennials-live-home-don-090023271.html
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lol damn thats sad

"About a third of 18- to 34-year-olds in the U.S. live at home, the Census Bureau reported on Wednesday. That includes college dormitories. Among 25- to 34-year-olds living at home, one in four is neither enrolled in school nor working. That's 2.2 million people, a small percentage of the nation's more than 70 million millennials but a striking figure nonetheless."

This sounds like more of a problem with the American education system if nothing else.
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The important thing is you managed to feel superior to everyone.
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Lonestar2000 posted...

The important thing is you managed to feel superior to everyone.

I certainly feel superior to able bodied people in their 20s who live with their parents and don't work or go to school. Aka freeloaders. Bad parenting is rampant in this country, it's the biggest problem we have and a root cause of why our country is fucked.
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Tekutso posted...

Lonestar2000 posted...

The important thing is you managed to feel superior to everyone.

I certainly feel superior to able bodied people in their 20s who live with their parents and don't work or go to school. Aka freeloaders. Bad parenting is rampant in this country, it's the biggest problem we have and a root cause of why our country is fucked.

I have a job and was spanked. Spanking works guys! Guys?!
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how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live
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Tekutso posted...

Lonestar2000 posted...

The important thing is you managed to feel superior to everyone.

I certainly feel superior to able bodied people in their 20s who live with their parents and don't work or go to school. Aka freeloaders. Bad parenting is rampant in this country, it's the biggest problem we have and a root cause of why our country is fucked.

This guy for Prez. The parenting is too damn bad!

I'm not in the US though
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Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?
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Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They're serious and they're not wrong

Technicalities...
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Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They know exactly what the article means but its a stupid phrase. Where you live is your home after all. It should say lives at their parent's house instead of at home.
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awesome999 posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They're serious and they're not wrong

Technicalities...

Sure they aren't wrong if you want to be obtuse about it and completely ignore colloquial use of the phrase "live at home", but I can't imagine someone being that obtuse. Then again, never mind, this is CE.
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awesome999 posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They're serious and they're not wrong

Technicalities...

Yeah they're right technically. Where I'm from though, the northeast usa, "I still live at home" or "do you still live at home" is a common term and is synonymous with "i still live with my parents" and "do you live with your parents".

I don't care about that too much though that wasn't the point of me sharing this. I hope some of you basement dwellers can change your ways and start contributing to society.
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I blame the economy.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

Trolls gotta troll man. Everyone knows what the phrase means, yet here they are arguing semantics, rather than the topic at hand.
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I appreciate it must be harder now for people in their early 20s to get on the property ladder than it was for me ten years ago, but to be in that position and not be working or in education at all is pretty inexcusable.

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

I wouldn't call the barracks home
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ArchiePeck posted...

I appreciate it must be harder now for people in their early 20s to get on the property ladder than it was for me ten years ago, but to be in that position and not be working or in education at all is pretty inexcusable.

That's what I'm saying. If you're in your mid 20's and you're living with your parents, if you're at least working/going to school you shouldn't feel bad. Its tough to afford a place on your own, and tough to find a reliable room mate. But doing nothing, jesus. That's why I say the parents are partly to blame. I'd send my kid to live on the street and I'm not kidding.
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I live with my mom and I'm 21. I live in NJ so rent here is like 1200+ a month, and besides we work in the same area (she works in family court, I work in civil court) so theres little to no reason for me to rush out and live paycheck to paycheck just to say I don't live with my parents
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Fuck that loud autoplaying music on that page
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Akagami_Shanks posted...

I live with my mom and I'm 21. I live in NJ so rent here is like 1200+ a month, and besides we work

This article doesn't pertain to you son. You're doing just fine.
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I can understand if you were working and helping pay bills if you're still living with your folks, but doing nothing? Unless you're actively looking for a job, I don't know how you not feel bad about yourself.

I guess some people are just more mentally ready for that task than others.
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Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

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That article feels half-finished to me. I expected to see some sort of explanation or something from sociological professor or some bullshit like that, explaining away why so many Millennials are living at home vs the previous generation.
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Alucard188 posted...

That article feels half-finished to me. I expected to see some sort of explanation or something from sociological professor or some bullshit like that, explaining away why so many Millennials are living at home vs the previous generation.

Yeah yahoo sucks, just happened to see it browsing news feeds. There's plenty of material on the subject though, lots of related articles online.
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It's very easy to explain why. We have the lowest taxes for the rich in any nation, we accepted the idea that rich people are taxed less because they will create more jobs but they continually outsource jobs and hide money in out of country tax havens. The article says a 1/4 of these people earn disability income so they do help their parents that way. Many probablt qualify for food stamps and help out that way. Many probably gave up looking for work and instead just help cook, clean and look after family children.
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hotwheeler89 posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They know exactly what the article means but its a stupid phrase. Where you live is your home after all. It should say lives at their parent's house instead of at home.

They were just softening the blow, they understand how sensitive millennials are.
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I'm not 18-34 though
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lmao
fuck this bitch ass author

http://observer.com/2013/09/polly-go-lightly-buying-a-new-york-city-apartment-at-the-tender-age-of-22/
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3901435

The apartment she finally closed on, a 418-square-foot abode in Greenwich Village, is worth $250,000 and was purchased with the help of her parents,

who is she to talk shit on people (meanwhile pointing out that half of them are white and male and a quarter being disabled) when her parent literally bought her house so she can act independent.

ssj-kenobi posted...

lmao
fuck this bitch ass author

http://observer.com/2013/09/polly-go-lightly-buying-a-new-york-city-apartment-at-the-tender-age-of-22/
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3901435

The apartment she finally closed on, a 418-square-foot abode in Greenwich Village, is worth $250,000 and was purchased with the help of her parents,

who is she to talk shit on people (meanwhile pointing out that half of them are white and male and a quarter being disabled) when her parent literally bought her house so she can act independent.

Did she hit a nerve neo-nazi?
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toptopmax posted...

ssj-kenobi posted...

lmao
fuck this bitch ass author

http://observer.com/2013/09/polly-go-lightly-buying-a-new-york-city-apartment-at-the-tender-age-of-22/
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3901435

The apartment she finally closed on, a 418-square-foot abode in Greenwich Village, is worth $250,000 and was purchased with the help of her parents,

who is she to talk shit on people (meanwhile pointing out that half of them are white and male and a quarter being disabled) when her parent literally bought her house so she can act independent.

Did she hit a nerve neo-nazi?

just sick of these fake ass 'im so independent' people when literally their parents are paying for their rent and shit. like wtf.

this $250k 'help' from her parents was probably just them paying for it in full and her just paying them back in her own time or deducting it from her inheritance if she is "late on her payments"

Plot twist: TC is 35, unemployed and lives with his parents
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ITT: millennials getting salty

Conflict posted...

I'm sure this article didn't even bother trying to specify how many millennials have in fact finished school but can't find work

CE has a lot of shitposters but the amount of people that are doing essentially nothing with their lives aren't really that common

Sound like Conflict is unemployed and lives with mommy. He's that guy who goes to Costco with his mom to make sure there's good snacks in the house.
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Conflict posted...

I'm sure this article didn't even bother trying to specify how many millennials have in fact finished school but can't find work

Because they think that just because they graduate they should be handed a job on a silver platter. I'd say the vast majority of them that "can't find work" either don't job hunt hard enough or got a shit degree.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Conflict posted...

I'm sure this article didn't even bother trying to specify how many millennials have in fact finished school but can't find work

Because they think that just because they graduate they should be handed a job on a silver platter. I'd say the vast majority of them that "can't find work" either don't job hunt hard enough or got a shit degree.

So true. They all got that, "entitled but haven't done shit" thing going on.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

awesome999 posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

Neoconkers posted...

how are you supposed to not live at home, "home" is the place where you live

Godnorgosh posted...

I hate the phrase "live at home." Everyone lives at home except the homeless and college students.

Probably a dumb question but are y'all being serious?

They're serious and they're not wrong

Technicalities...

Sure they aren't wrong if you want to be obtuse about it and completely ignore colloquial use of the phrase "live at home", but I can't imagine someone being that obtuse. Then again, never mind, this is CE.

Obtuse:
annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

Saying they're being obtuse implies they don't understand the way "live at home" is being used, which clearly isn't the case.
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Topic title is a bit presumptuous, TC.
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Tekutso posted...

ArchiePeck posted...

I appreciate it must be harder now for people in their early 20s to get on the property ladder than it was for me ten years ago, but to be in that position and not be working or in education at all is pretty inexcusable.

That's what I'm saying. If you're in your mid 20's and you're living with your parents, if you're at least working/going to school you shouldn't feel bad. Its tough to afford a place on your own, and tough to find a reliable room mate. But doing nothing, jesus. That's why I say the parents are partly to blame. I'd send my kid to live on the street and I'm not kidding.

And how would that help them afford a higher education or get a job?
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milenimals @_@
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Personally im 32, have a family of 6 to support and live on my own (well with wife and kids) but I can see why so many people are living at home with their parents. Ive literally worked like a slave at 100+ hours a week (I use to be a roofer and put in 16 hour days 7 days a week 4 months out the year while the weather was good). Money was good for me but I always had just enough to pay off the bills with some extra to take the family out to dinner whenever we wanted. Nothing more nothing less.


The expense of living day to day is astronomical compared to what it once was. Not to mention jobs arent paying much different yet its more than 4x as expensive to live as it was 25-30 years ago. Jobs arent really there and most dont make enough to actually survive on your own.

RedWhiteBlue posted...

People need to realize that the millennials have been fucked over by baby boomers. All degrees could get you a job. A minimum wage job supported the family. Nothing was expensive. Housing was cheap. No student loan issue. Everything was great.

And then they fucked us over and blame us for not dealing with their greed. Depression is on the rise as result of this and shit parenting.

ikr. Boomers be rubbing their hands gleefully and be like:

let's shame millenials who still live at home in their 20s. why not buy or rent out one of our properties ey millenial? you don't want to be considered a loser do you?

yes millenial, get that mortgage to buy my $400k spare property which I bought in the 70s-90s with my job that didn't even require a that degree weve been pushing you to get while I was the single earner of the family.

what's that, you want training for that job? you gotta get them student loans for college millenial, it's the only way to get a good job. why should we pay for your training millenial? oh you got that college degree now? so did 250 of these other applicants millenial. now who is willing to work for the cheapest and have the most work stacked on them? why should I pay you millenial when I can pay someone in India and China to do it for cheaper?

what's that millenial? you don't have a job, you are living at home? we weren't as lazy as you when we were your age millenial. hang on let us post articles about these millenials who still live in their parents homes

The median income of millennials is 40k. I call horse shit on that stat. Most adults I've known, and I mean 40+ year olds don't even make that.

Thank the living lord I'm too old by most accounts (but mine most importantly) to be apart of that generation for just general purposes.
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Blame Baby Boomers and greedy %1 making it so all the millenials can't find jobs and start making money to move out like all their parents and grandparents.

I have seen tons of 20 somethings living with their parents, with a college degree working "in a trial test period" for like 3-4 years and getting paid almost minimum wage so they can't afford like anything.

I dunno who is to blame but if smart people with degrees can't even work to make good money and move from their parents then the whole system messed up in the last decades.
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Finding employment is a bitch now. Companies literally get hundreds of resumes. It took me 6 months to find my job after I quit my last one, and I have a good resume.
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