Posted on 07/13/2007 7:40:11 AM PDT by qam1
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Minimum wage has quadrupled; I'm making about 20 times what I was making in my first job out of college in 1974.
“Most parents bought their house in 1968 for $65,000, but it would go for $800,000 today...”
Who in the world was paying $65,000 for a house in 1968? It would have had to been the upper 1% of wage earners back then.
Wow, what a bunch of losers. I’m 33, my wife and I have great careers and investments. Not all of us are like that.
“I am sick though, of listening to perpetual whiners who have a better standard of living than 90% of all the people in human history, prattle on and on and on about how terrible their life is.”
You got that right. The whole nation has become a bunch of whiners. They don’t know how well they have it. It is sickening.
take the hint
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We’re the exact same age. From the sounds of this article it seems that 30 is the new 16.
I agree, they were mostly whiny stereotypical liberals with stereotypical liberal friends. They lived in Philadelphia, not the suburbs as I recall. Hope and Michael’s house was dilapidated as I recall, and they were fixing it up in one of those “gentrification” schemes so popular in that day. In reality, one brush with crime, and sometimes real human concern for their children, sent the Hopes and Michaels of the world out to the suburbs.
My parents bought the house my mother still lives in in 1962 for about $20,000.
I bought my first house in 1979 for $38,000.
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Another 38 year old here. Do either of you have the pleasure of supervising “kids” between about 23 and 30? I fear for the human race sometimes.
OK, I'll fess up. This was exactly where I was on the cusp of my 30th birthday. Now at 38, things have improved quite a bit but I did finally come to the realization that I'll never be a rock star. I still may churn out that best-selling novel, though! :-)
Did undergrad and grad school on schedule. Squeezed in military service. Married at 20. Homeowner at 24. It's just not that hard.
Finish school and go to work.
*sigh* My dad bought our house in 1984 for $56,000. Less than five years ago my first house was listed as being bought for $75,000. Suddenly, three years ago we can finally afford a house and the $75,000 house cost us $109,000. You can't find one that cheap anymore. Argh!
The majority wanted to be movie stars and millionaires by age 30? Sounds like they need a good dose of reality to slap ‘em upside their silly little heads if they think that’s what happiness is.
No wonder they’re all miserable.
By the time you are 35, you should have accumulated some savings. Many people live above their means, and prefer to spend $4 on a cup of coffee at Starbucks when the coffee at McDonalds is better (per taste test). Also, I know people that don’t save, but eat out every evening, buy new cars every couple of years, etc.
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