I'm 40 and I feel every bit of this. π
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That's cause this is a 10 year old post and things have not improved since then.
35-45, such a weird fucking age.
I'm 39 for a few more months and was hoping a complete transformation happened day one of being forty. Guess not.
Yuuuuuuuuup same here. #feelsoldman
the 25-35 year olds have $5000?? that's better than I expected
That was the hyperbole part of the post
Same but 42.
And for your information it's $5,796.41
I love the rocket mortgage ad telling you that you should refinance your house in order to afford groceries.
Must be really old, as Gen X I wouldn't dare tell you to refi with these rates. it's not 2017 anymore. I couldn't afford a house if I had to buy one now.
At 24 I can't afford rent within an hour drive of my workplace. Average rent is $2700/mo (distribution is bimodal really, $2500ish and $3000ish). I could barely afford that if I was making twice what I do now
I pay $800. Even if I move for a $10k raise, I'll lose more than that paying rent somewhere where there are jobs.
Where do you live? I am in MD and there are plenty of places that are under $1500 for a 1 bedroom. Still expensive, but nowhere near the number you are talking about.
Iβm betting Canada.
Considering the cheapest place I could find in my hometown even 15 years ago was a room in somebody's house with "occasional kitchen access" for $1k a month, this could easily be just about anywhere outside of the rural US.
In NY / LI in an industrial park so anything cheaper than about around 2k is a bedroom with no kitchen, no w/d, or some kind of chop shop tenement housing with 20 bedrooms packed into a normal two story house. Anything listed as cheaper, especially on sites like Craigslist is just scammers who want your SSN and illegally high "application fees" before you even see the place, or they're excluding some deal breaker details (e.g. nowhere to do laundry, no kitchen, roommates, what utilities are included, etc).
I could live around an hour by car away but then I'd also need a car + insurance etc. Funnily enough the lack of a car doesn't really affect my options because of how large of a black hole in cheap housing there is out here. It wouldv also negate the cost savings. The streets are not walkable or bikable - it's all 4+ lane highways, so certain places aren't an option. Currently I take a train+bus+walk but I'm at the whims of those underfunded systems, which have proven unreliable.
Damn, I wish I had $5k at 22 years old.
I'm 34 with a full time paying job while my wife has 2 jobs. We don't even have 1k between checking and savings after all the bills have been paid. We're one broken bone or ER trip away from a disaster. No need to worry though. I've heard the economy is doing FANTASTIC.
No they are the 25-35 year old with 5k
Oh my bad. I misread it.
Life has no meaning, just do your best to enjoy it
This isn't about "finding meaning in life", it's about dealing with a crap hand that was dealt before we even sat at the table. Yes, the ideal approach is to make the best of it, but every step of even doing that is made harder every year and that sucks.
Don't fight for a better tomorrow. Just keep your head down and hope to come out the other side in decent enough shape to die.
you're right- it was all just a joke to start with, wasn't it
If your tasty casserole is similar to the boomer macaroni, that's a you problem. Learn to cook better.
Every holiday at home feels like thisβ¦.
Haha. Ow. ΚβΏΚ
25 year olds aren't millennials
Considering this post is like 7 years old, yes they where.
GenX here. Yeah I remember that phase. Too old to be a kid. Too young to have any authority. The only 5K I had was on credit. But it gets easier.
And to any other fellas with $5K in the 12cent account. Please take the time to move that to a HYSA. You can get like 5% a year these days.
Wish I knew that earlier π«
smiling incomprehensibly
how can no one comprehend my smile?
spoiler, the insecurities extend well into your forties
I read this in Jason Alexander's voice
Does anyone know at what point run-on sentences became synonymous with comedy?
To me, it conveys stream of consciousness in a literary format that wouldn't normally be able to get the same effect across. But damn break it up into 2 or 3 at some point