Boomers, must be nice
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That was one of the most dumbest things I've seen about the boomers.
Not gonna watch but I’m sure I won’t see them wasting their youth in front of a screen.
Exactly, even worse, how about wasting their time making a video about how they have it harder than the boomers.
These generational insults are so tiring. As predicatble as the sun rising in the morning.
Exactly. As a boomer I remember Wage starting at $4.50. Interest rates at 18% when I built my $36,000.00 house.
Had I been able to work my first factory job as a machinist all my life as my father did, I would be way better off now. The companies sending their work to foreign countries and laying me off. Most blue-collar work in CR was gone and companies were not hiring.
Unemployed 2 weeks short of a year. $165.00 a week for a family of 4. Had to make 3 personal contacts a week.
Wife worked 3 part time jobs while I spent time making contacts and in church food lines. Not a fun time.
Missing scene:
Local draft board: " Hello, City High Grad of 1965, how you doing? "
City High grad: " Not too bad, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. Just started A ball in Cedar Rapids."
Local draft board: " Good news/bad news. You've been drafted again. You'll be getting a 2 year contract. You'll be heading to Vietnam after a couple months of training."
City High grad: " I don't even own a gun. I have 5 Louisville Sluggers, and a Rawlings Lou Burdette glove. "
Local draft board: " You sound perfect for the job. You're not enrolled in college or the oldest son of a farm family are you? "
City High grad: " No I live in a small town. I wanted to be a major league baseball player."
Local draft board: " You can do that if you come back alive."
City High grad: " Wished I could have gotten into college. "
Local draft board: " Hello, City High Grad of 1965, how you doing? "
City High grad: " Not too bad, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. Just started A ball in Cedar Rapids."
Local draft board: " Good news/bad news. You've been drafted again. You'll be getting a 2 year contract. You'll be heading to Vietnam after a couple months of training."
City High grad: " I don't even own a gun. I have 5 Louisville Sluggers, and a Rawlings Lou Burdette glove. "
Local draft board: " You sound perfect for the job. You're not enrolled in college or the oldest son of a farm family are you? "
City High grad: " No I live in a small town. I wanted to be a major league baseball player."
Local draft board: " You can do that if you come back alive."
City High grad: " Wished I could have gotten into college. "
If only there were points for relevance instead of irrelevant stupidity.
This is a flex? Houses are ten times this amount now. That $4.50 would be $45 starting wage.
Boomers got jobs and many hung on to them because there was a lot of competition for a job that started at around $6,500 a year. For a good job. Of course you were open to moving.
Yes college was waaay cheaper then - or a lot of us couldn’t have gone because our parents (you know the Depression kids who fought WWII) couldn’t have afforded it.
My own parents were blue collar kids with GED’s who sacrificed a lot for the education of their four kids (yep 1950’s families were larger).
FSU tuition (quarter system when I started) was $125 plus dorm, books, meal plan, I sold my parents on a sorority because they had mandatory study hall and more “wholesome food”. (LOL) I think my freshman year cost my parents about $1500 total.
Of course Professors made maybe 15,000 a year and the size of the Administration bureaucracy was smaller.
Men were drafted. Houses were a lot less and didn’t have automatic central air. Fewer bells and whistles. Cheaper lots.
Yes college was waaay cheaper then - or a lot of us couldn’t have gone because our parents (you know the Depression kids who fought WWII) couldn’t have afforded it.
My own parents were blue collar kids with GED’s who sacrificed a lot for the education of their four kids (yep 1950’s families were larger).
FSU tuition (quarter system when I started) was $125 plus dorm, books, meal plan, I sold my parents on a sorority because they had mandatory study hall and more “wholesome food”. (LOL) I think my freshman year cost my parents about $1500 total.
Of course Professors made maybe 15,000 a year and the size of the Administration bureaucracy was smaller.
Men were drafted. Houses were a lot less and didn’t have automatic central air. Fewer bells and whistles. Cheaper lots.
When mortgage rates were that high minimum wage was nowhere near that. Those of us old enough know that.
I started at minimum wage at 4.10 in 1990. My first teaching job in 1998 was $11/hour ( that was just for teaching contract hours. Which went down considerably when you added coaching in.
These are facts of my life as it was/is.
Oh yeah, Vietnam was fun also.
Minimum wage was around $1.25 an hour as I remember
A piece of crap 585 sq foot trailer is now $69k in Iowa City. It's baffles me why boomers don't recognize how lucky they got with housing.
2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA 52240 | MLS #11379587 | Zillow
This 585 square feet Mobile / Manufactured home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom. It is located at 2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA.
www.zillow.com
Not back in 1976 it wasn'tA piece of crap 585 sq foot trailer is now $69k in Iowa City. It's baffles me why boomers don't recognize how lucky they got with housing.
2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA 52240 | MLS #11379587 | Zillow
This 585 square feet Mobile / Manufactured home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom. It is located at 2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA.
Smart person would not live in a trailer even back then.
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It's so much easier to buy a home today then it was in 1975. It's not even close. Banks just give away money to anyone in this day and age, that wasn't always the case.
After years and years of millennials being shit on by boomers for almost everything, it's funny to hear boomers say that it's tiring.
awww so sleepy
awww so sleepy
It's the Gen Z way to shame old people for being old. Each generation has their own ways.
The only difference is Gen Z and Gen A use it to shame everyone rather than just those in the age group the term was intended for.
One of my favorite housing posts ever was some guy saying that houses are affordable if you know where to look, and with complete seriousness posted a zillow link to the shittiest ****ing house I've ever seen in a small town in Iowa like 45 minutes away from Cedar Falls.A piece of crap 585 sq foot trailer is now $69k in Iowa City. It's baffles me why boomers don't recognize how lucky they got with housing.
2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA 52240 | MLS #11379587 | Zillow
This 585 square feet Mobile / Manufactured home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom. It is located at 2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA.
They mostly do. But it’s all a matter of perspective. Imagine a house today not having air conditioning and all the other nice things that a house 50-60 years ago didn’t have. Imagine trying to buy a house with 10-18% rates. Almost everyone posting here shouldn’t have a rate above 3%.A piece of crap 585 sq foot trailer is now $69k in Iowa City. It's baffles me why boomers don't recognize how lucky they got with housing.
2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA 52240 | MLS #11379587 | Zillow
This 585 square feet Mobile / Manufactured home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom. It is located at 2018 Waterfront Dr TRAILER 58, Iowa City, IA.
Plus real estate in a major college town, trailer or not, doesn’t reflect the normal world.
I am basically a boomer although they say I'm gen X but I debate that. anywhos... this is not an accurate description of boomer life in ottumwa iowa. however this film is:
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