Summer of 1999
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Anonymous
| My 23 yo pays $1500 as half of the rent on an apt. on the exact same street where I paid $410 in 1993. |
Anonymous
People like this pass judgmental proclamations about others because they themselves are insecure. Confident, successful adults don’t give a second though to where young adults who are not their children live. |
Anonymous
Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Grow up. |
Anonymous
| I graduated from high school in '94 and didn't move out until I was 23. I paid rent, worked full time and went to school part time. I paid for my car, the car insurance, my health insurance, all my own clothes, etc. My older brother moved back home after college, had a full time job, paid rent, and didn't move out until 25. And things are only MORE expensive now. |
Anonymous
Exactly what my spouse did |
Anonymous
So stuff was cheaper 30 years ago? That’s surprising. |
Anonymous
This is the only explanation. |
Anonymous
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I lived in a group house in Adams Morgan in 1994 and shared a group house with three random guys—one bathroom! I didn’t buy my first house until I was 31. But my nephew lived with his parents after he graduated, and saved up enough money to be able to buy a house with his girlfriend at age 28, and they started their family at age 30. Who did it better? Really, why does it matter?
I’ll also note that my grandmother, who started working at 20, lived with her parents and saved money until she got married at 29. That was in the roaring 20s. |
Anonymous
NP. I can understand it from a "housing is expensive" standpoint, but I know many cases like this where the adult children still ask "what's for dinner" or needs to be reminded to remove their laundry so many times that mom just does it for them, or they don't pay for anything - not their cell phone bill, not some of the utilities, or a partial rent. Or still get an "allowance" for mowing the lawn while living their for free. I mean WTF?! |
Anonymous
Where? $850 was what I paid for an apartment shared four ways (1 bathroom) in Boston a decade ago. I don’t think you can get anything for $850 today unless you’re living with several roommates. |
Anonymous
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In 2003, a group of us rented a townhome in NOVA for $1850. With inflation, it should go for $2164.88, according to a website called in2013dollars.com. When I look at Rent.com, I saw a comparable townhome in that zip code go for $2950.
We need need to give lots of grace to young people today. If they want to live at home while paying off the staggering cost of college theses days, then I’m all for that. The more people live with their parents, the less competition there is for the remaining units, making them more affordable for those who can’t live with their families. |
Anonymous
20-somethings who liver under their parents' roofs certainly seem to get a lot of heat, particularly on DCUM. Yet, it seems to be perfectly OK for 70-somethings to be live under their KIDS' roofs. Clearly, you think it's taboo for a 25-year-old to be dependent on others. By this logic, you should think it's 3 times as taboo for a 75-year-old to be dependent on others. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't, though, since logic doesn't seem to be the middle name of most DCUM posters. |
Anonymous
Well, you can rent a house for about $3k and share with 2 or 3 others, bringing the rent down. |
Anonymous
Is he making 4x what you made? |
Anonymous
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Oh OP. I moved out at 18, paid my way through college with jobs and merit scholarships, and got my PhD the same way. And all you did was move out? Didn’t you have ambition? Some get up and go? So lazy!
See how that works? MYOB. |