You’re the crazy uncle everyone talk about

OG Gwen Stefani was awesome.

Having also graduated in 1999, I have to say that the 90's were kind of a party. I was a closeted queer person and dealt with a lot of issues because of that but I met my first out LGBT people in 1998/1999 at my first job. It was pretty amazing seeing these people just being themselves without feeling the shame I had instilled into myself. I recognize that everyone's teen years can feel sort of carefree but the music I listened to at the time was a lot better than what came a few years later. 9/11 hit and everything became depressing from our politics to our music. Meanwhile the 90's was a party.



I love "Losing a Whole Year" by Third Eye Blind because of the line, "With the pierced queer teens in cyberspace" because I was a queer teen at the time and our entire generation were the first kids in cyberspace. And of course Jumper from that same album I totally related to for similar reasons.





I really did like the music but I know that's common for those that are teens in a decade to say. It's just that the music that followed 9/11 was so much worse for me. Here's one last song for fun nostalgia.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Well, the whole point of going to college is so you can afford to live on your own. But if you can already live on your own at 18, what do you need to go to college for? I get that a lot of people go to college to have fun, but if you were working your way through college, it doesn't sound like you would've had much time for that.

That’s an odd take. I didn’t go to college to have fun. I went so I could get a really good job that would pay more than what I could get with only a HS diploma and frankly, be a lot more interesting. I can understand why your sister and niece think you are a great big PITA if you come at them with such a judgmental attitude. MYOB

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?

I think people who move out at 18 are babies. I moved out for goof at 29. My mom was widowed when I was 16. I paid rent, mowed her lawn, shoveled her work, did hone repairs, paid part of utility bills. Helped her with shopping etc. I was not mooching.

When I did move out and partied every night till 34 when I got married I think I was less mature

Anonymous wrote: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.

Well, the whole point of going to college is so you can afford to live on your own. But if you can already live on your own at 18, what do you need to go to college for? I get that a lot of people go to college to have fun, but if you were working your way through college, it doesn't sound like you would've had much time for that.

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?

You do you and MYOB. And this is from someone who also moved out at 18.

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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.

NP you have to be so out of touch to think you can rent something for $850… a parking spot downtown starts at $300/month. Maybe $250 if you have a friendly neighbor who is willing to cut you a deal.
In 2011 my DH and I were paying $2100 for a crummy English basement 1 bedroom downtown. Same unit is easily $2800 today.

A 2 bedroom begins at $3000+. A 3 bedroom apt probably rents for $4000-$4500. This would be non-luxury units rented out by owners. However you splice that it’s $1500 a pop plus utilities on top (think electric $100/month split).

That’s $20,000/year to be generous. How did you do that at 18 and go to school? Let’s say you have college loans too.

Minimum wage is $16.5 in dc. You works a FT 40 hr/week job and that’s $34,320 before tax. Approximately $28,000 after tax. The math just doesn’t work out at the beginning. You need to get some savings under you. A few years of strategic decisions and you can get your own place.

Let me introduce you to the concept of having roommates.

Did you even read what PP wrote?