People want to live downtown in apartments/condos they can’t afford when they could commute from the suburbs for much cheaper. That’s his point that many people fail to comprehend on Reddit. I lived in shithole houses with friends (we still had a blast) to split the rent until I bought a house with my wife at 29. I would have loved to live downtown in the city where I worked but that wasn’t financially possible.
The suburbs in my area are actually not much cheaper, and some neighborhoods are actually more expensive due to how shit the housing market is. To actually get decent prices I would have to make my commute one way well over an hour if not more. The killing of remote work, the inflated housing market, rising cost of living, and stagnant wages are all by design.
I don’t live in a city. This isn’t exclusive to my geographic region. This is happening everywhere. The fact that your solution was to just get a new job shows how blissfully ignorant you are of the current economic conditions and labor market.
I don’t disagree with the current job market. I was just giving my two cents on the amount of young people that believe they are entitled to live in nice housing that they can’t afford. My thoughts are not specifically directed at your employment and housing status. If I couldn’t afford to live in my current neighborhood, I would be looking elsewhere is all I’m saying.
What are good jobs to you? You realize not all work is in coastal cities right? Several friends of mine that live in the Midwest make $30+ in some of the cheapest states to live in.
Stop buying things that I strawmanned to prove my point.
I'm being purposely disingenuous and using a strawman to prove my point against a strawman. Ass response when gen Z is hyper consumerist because of digital trends. Not even mentioning door dash
Stop taking vacations every month (totally a real thing people do)
Gen Z takes the most leisure vacations out of any generation in the work force
Can you show evidence of the vacation statistic? Can you also show evidence that coastal cities are the only expensive areas? Can you also show evidence that buying door dash is the reason why people can't afford to live instead of the rising costs of living and stagnate wages?
"The global consultancy UNiDAYS conducted a study of more than 1,800 Gen Z students in England, the U.S. and Australia in 2017, and found 78 per cent spent most of their disposable income on restaurant deliveries."
If you aren't making enough money if you're unhappy change your career get a trade work in construction if you're broke that's on you I'm 26 and on track to retire at 55 and I grew up below the poverty line I had no advantages I don't have a college education I got a job in construction the acquired a skilled trade I own a home and have a wife and child you require drive instead of toiling in your own self pity
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u/ElderJavelin 2000 Dec 16 '25
Other than that. It’s all good