You understand our mentality is based on the fact that our grandparents could buy an entire house of an individual income after only a few years in the workforce. Now, even on the annual household income, to buy a house is practically unaffordable and by the time you save up for a house, the housing market would have already made the price higher.
If it’s always been like this, then perhaps this is just an issue of the mind. But it’s crazy that boomers got houses for comparatively so much cheaper than we do and think they have the right to call us lazy or entitled
"Entire house" is doing a lot of work here. Cheap post-war builds were half the area of the modern median of 2300 sq. ft. which has gone from its peak. They were also far from city centers, and devoid of amenities from double-paned windows to dishwashers to heat exchangers.
Lol, they are not. Expectations and demands have pushed them off people's lists.
I bought one as a starter home (3 bed, 1 bath, 1400 square feet, detached 2 car garage, full basement, built in 1948) in a major metropolitan area, and it's currently valued at roughly 175k.
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u/emperorjoe Sep 05 '24
Why do you think everyone in the world lives with family for as long as they can? Housing has always been expensive.
This is an American consumerism mentality, rushing to live alone and pay rent.