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.

Anonymous wrote:My 23 yo pays $1500 as half of the rent on an apt. on the exact same street where I paid $410 in 1993.

Is he making 4x what you made?

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Anonymous wrote:Housing was expensive then too. People like making excuses for the lazy.

Not like today. Back in the 90s I worked a series of crap jobs and I was able to afford to live in nice neighborhoods in Boston and San Francisco. The studio apartment I rented back in 2000 for $750 a month now goes for $3500. Incomes have not increased anywhere near that level in the last 20 years.

Exactly. My friends and I rented an entire house for $400/mo in 1992-93. You can’t even get a studio for that now.

$400 in 1992 is $850 Today. You can rent a place for $850. Excuses.

Where can you rent a house for $850?

Well, you can rent a house for about $3k and share with 2 or 3 others, bringing the rent down.

Anonymous wrote:So I moved out my parents house after I graduated from high school, I love my parents but I moved out because I was an 18 year old adult, and now 20-30 SOMETHINGS are still living at home with mommy and daddy what happened?
Are they treating like babies now? I got into a fight with my sister yesterday, because her daughter is 22 and has no plans on moving out, I asked her what she plans on moving out and she has no plans why?

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Housing was expensive then too. People like making excuses for the lazy.

Not like today. Back in the 90s I worked a series of crap jobs and I was able to afford to live in nice neighborhoods in Boston and San Francisco. The studio apartment I rented back in 2000 for $750 a month now goes for $3500. Incomes have not increased anywhere near that level in the last 20 years.

Exactly. My friends and I rented an entire house for $400/mo in 1992-93. You can’t even get a studio for that now.

$400 in 1992 is $850 Today. You can rent a place for $850. Excuses.

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 wrote:Housing is really expensive now. Kids just can’t move out at 18 anymore.

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?!

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.

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This is the only explanation.

Anonymous wrote:My 23 yo pays $1500 as half of the rent on an apt. on the exact same street where I paid $410 in 1993.

So stuff was cheaper 30 years ago? That’s surprising.

Anonymous wrote:OP, it is extremely rare for people to move out of the family home at 18. The only people I know who did that were trying to get away from a dysfunctional family.

Exactly what my spouse did

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.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound extremely damaged?

What happened to you in your childhood?

Why didn’t you go to college?

My childhood was going great, and I didn't go to college isn't required, and we are going to need to pay 20K of her student loan debt, another topic I talked to them about.

Who is "we" in this? Why are you paying your niece's college debt?

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Because Biden is singed an EO

Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Grow up.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you fight about something like that? Who cares? Lordy people minding your own business and not starting sh!t is free.

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.

My 23 yo pays $1500 as half of the rent on an apt. on the exact same street where I paid $410 in 1993.