Baby Boomers

[cawacko]

What's a "trailor"?

Average square foot cost to build a brand new house is $150. And college has never been "practically free".

https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/architects-and-engineers/build-a-house/

Trailor is how people like CFM spell Trailer.

Public Universities in the '60's when the Boomers were going was like nothing if you went in state in most places. You could hold part time jobs to be able to pay your way through school. Zero chance of that today.

 

[cawacko]

That's not why people want to live in a faggot and illegal infested shithole.

I can still afford to move to any city. I choose not to live in places where trash like you live.

No one wants to live in the Silicon Valley but prices are $1K+. Ok.

 

[Sailor]

Trailor is how people like CFM spell Trailer.

Public Universities in the '60's when the Boomers were going was like nothing if you went in state in most places. You could hold part time jobs to be able to pay your way through school. Zero chance of that today.

Probably because they do not want to work.

 

[dukkha]

but boomers are the only generation with the best damn rock and roll musicians!!

Tom Petty will never happen again, or Dylan, or singer songwriters in general..

No question the boomers sold out.
they were the one's that had the brilliant idea of outsourcing

 

[NOVA]

ridiculous.......higher education and houses cost us multiple years income just like they do now......

wacho doesn't quite understand that everything in relative, including the cost of living in each generation....

but after the greatest generation saved not only this country and practically the entire world from slavery by the axis powers, they rewarded themselves and their offspring
to some degree and they, what was left of them, and their children created the greatest, richest country in world...in reality, you morons of today are the ones reaping the benefits and riches
they created.....

 

[Sailor]

wacho doesn't quite understand that everything in relative, including the cost of living in each generation....

but after the greatest generation saved not only this country and practically the entire world from slavery by the axis powers, they rewarded themselves and their offspring
to some degree and they, what was left of them, and their children created the greatest, richest country in world...in reality, you morons of today are the ones reaping the benefits and riches
they created.....

This is a good point. A very good point.

 

[MAGA MAN]

It's pretty simple. When you were growing up cost wasn't an issue (unless you were dirt poor) from moving to any City. Today that's not the case. There's a reason people want to move to where I live (hint: it's how we're communicating) but it's price prohibitive for many. That's not a good thing for the country as a whole. That aside it is completely different than when you were young.

I grew up six miles from downtown Boston. When I was five years old my parents bought a 3000sf house with a two car detached garage on a quiet suburban street in a low crime town for $30,000. When I was 23 they sold it for $340,000. I was smart enough then to get out of Dodge where cost of living was more reasonable. That same house now recently sold for well over 1.5 million. Of the two-dozen or so folks that I grew up with and connect with now, I know of no one who stayed in that town. None of them can afford to.

I have two sisters who live two towns further out. Both are married and have two college-educated income households, so they make, comparatively, about twice to what my old man did or a bit less. My parents supported five kids, they both supported two or three. Their homes are about half the size of our home growing up.

My brother who is a friggin' doctor lives over an hour outside Boston. He lives in an apartment of a large house and has his practice on the bottom level. He did manage to buy a vacation home, but it was five years after I did, and he's seven years older.

 

[cawacko]

Probably because they do not want to work.

For example, UC schools cost $25K for in state tuition. No part job is going to pay that for today's students. My father told me the story of losing his tennis scholarship his senior year and being so afraid to tell his parents he took three part time jobs in school and paid his entire tuition himself. No one could do that today.

 

[cawacko]

I posted this tweet part in fun because most arguments on this board are between right and left. Something like this changes up the dynamics and makes it a generational thing.

 

[Sailor]

For example, UC schools cost $25K for in state tuition. No part job is going to pay that for today's students. My father told me the story of losing his tennis scholarship his senior year and being so afraid to tell his parents he took three part time jobs in school and paid his entire tuition himself. No one could do that today.

Your father did CA. Good man I might add.

 

[cawacko]

Your father did CA. Good man I might add.

No part time job today will pay enough to cover today's costs even if someone was willing to do it

 

[Sailor]

No part time job today will pay enough to cover today's costs even if someone was willing to do it

Depends on what you do. Am I am not being argumentative. Around here if you can get a site on a fishing vessel for the summer you can make triple or more that tuition cost. I imagine there are jobs like that all over this country.

 

[NOVA]

Trailor is how people like CFM spell Trailer.

Public Universities in the '60's when the Boomers were going was like nothing if you went in state in most places. You could hold part time jobs to be able to pay your way through school. Zero chance of that today.

Boomers are certainly not responsible for the greed of todays public school system..considering they are run and overrun by liberals ..

 

[MAGA MAN]

For example, UC schools cost $25K for in state tuition. No part job is going to pay that for today's students. My father told me the story of losing his tennis scholarship his senior year and being so afraid to tell his parents he took three part time jobs in school and paid his entire tuition himself. No one could do that today.

We sent both our kids through the NC university system. My son went to NC State and it was more expensive than where my daughter went. His last year tuition + fees was $8200.

 

[Micawber]

Maybe trailors are still cheap where you live. When you were young people your age could move to areas where the jobs were and purchase affordable homes. Today kids come out of school tens of thousands in debt and have no chance to buy a place in those same cities because home prices have skyrocketed.

Not only that, but the equity train has come to a screaching halt for the foreseeable.
My father bought his first home circa 1965 for 30K. He sold it some years ago $700K
So I think that my purchase at $800K should be worth round about 16 million smackaroos in 2050, right?
That's what I learned at Trump U.

 

[Sailor]

^Lives in a cardboard box.

 

[cawacko]

We sent both our kids through the NC university system. My son went to NC State and it was more expensive than where my daughter went. His last year tuition + fees was $8200.

Relatively speaking that seems pretty affordable. (not cheap but affordable) Dumb question but do UNC and NC State cost the same? (In California the UC schools cost much more than the state schools which is why I ask)

 

[Althea]

Depends on what you do. Am I am not being argumentative. Around here if you can get a site on a fishing vessel for the summer you can make triple or more that tuition cost. I imagine there are jobs like that all over this country.

And there are plenty of affordable universities/colleges

 

[NOVA]

For example, UC schools cost $25K for in state tuition. No part job is going to pay that for today's students. My father told me the story of losing his tennis scholarship his senior year and being so afraid to tell his parents he took three part time jobs in school and paid his entire tuition himself. No one could do that today.

My first job in the private sector was for $1.98 and hour, mid 60's....Full time...no part time job was gonna put anyone through college even in the 60's.....
Sounds to me most you we were born with a silver spoon in your pie holes....

 

[countryboy]

Trailor is how people like CFM spell Trailer.

Um, no, actually it's how YOU spelled it.

Public Universities in the '60's when the Boomers were going was like nothing if you went in state in most places. You could hold part time jobs to be able to pay your way through school. Zero chance of that today.

I suppose you have some evidence to back this up, right?

Also, boomers were born up until 1964, I don't think too many newborns were attending college.

I also noticed you skipped right over your ridiculous "$1000 per square foot" assertion.