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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a boomer I never expected child care or financial support from my parents and my parents never received that from their parents. Why do millennials expect it from their parents? We all faced child care and financial challenges when we were in our 30s and 40s but somehow survived over time. I still cringe when I think about our 17.25% mortgage in 1981. I never had one below 6-7% which is now considered outrageous. [/quote]

Cost of living and home prices back then were in a completely different league than today.[/quote]

Yes, and incomes were much lower. No boomer ever had a 3% mortgage and with debt that cheap size of homes and prices escalate which is very understandable. Cost of living? Boomers never, in their 30s and 40s, paid for cell phones, streaming services, Instacart, Uber Eats etc. They didn’t exist! Our cost of living may have been lower because we didn’t have all of these things to piss our money away on. We actually cooked our own meals and watched free TV. [/quote]

So y’all weren’t smarter or more self-disciplined. You just had fewer options.[/quote]

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