{"id":131235,"date":"2015-10-17T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/your-generation\/"},"modified":"2015-10-17T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T21:52:13","slug":"your-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/17\/your-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUR generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

irrationalliberal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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YOUR generation was the generation where two teachers could afford to buy a 4-bedroom house in San Diego, CA and then afford the mortgage and raise 2 kids in private school (my parents did this).<\/p>\n

YOUR generation was the generation where one parent could work in Financial Aid at the local college and the other could raise 2 kids in a 3 bedroom house (my now-retired coworker did this).<\/p>\n

YOUR generation was the generation where you could wash dishes to put yourself through college and law school (my uncle did this).<\/p>\n

MY generation can\u2019t buy a home when the average cost is $440k and a combined income of two teachers is only $70k, and they have to pay 35% income to rent, let alone trying to afford children.<\/p>\n

MY generation has both parents working, one or both working 2 jobs just to buy food, not even able to afford a family vacation every December.<\/p>\n

MY generation is in student debt on average $29,400. \u00a0And we have scholarships but they only cover 40% of the cost and when law school costs $120k for 2 years, you do the math.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t tell me that it\u2019s MY GENERATION that fucking things up. \u00a0We\u2019re only 25, we didn\u2019t get in to the war in 2001 (we were 11 years old), we didn\u2019t de-fund mental health institutions in 1975, we didn\u2019t decide that grants and scholarships should be funded less and tuition should cost more, we didn\u2019t raise the housing market 7000% (my childhood home was bought for $95k and sold for $750k 20 years later). \u00a0MY GENERATION didn\u2019t do any of that, YOUR generation did.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t tell me I\u00a0\u201cjust\u201d need to\u00a0\u201cget a better job\u201d or that I\u00a0\u201conly\u201d have to send my kids to\u00a0\u201ca good school.\u201d \u00a0Because it doesn\u2019t work like that anymore. \u00a0And don\u2019t blame me.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

irrationalliberal: YOUR generation was the generation where two teachers could afford to buy a 4-bedroom house in San Diego, CA and then afford the mortgage and raise 2 kids in private school (my parents did this). YOUR generation was the generation where one parent could work in Financial Aid at the local college and the … <\/p>\n

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