El Jason
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Damn I can remember some funny shit from the high school locker room that involved icy hot.
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Poor millennials
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Potsie
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Icy Hot was a weapon of mass destruction every wrestling season.
Potsie
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That you loaded your drawers at a sizzler?
Rack Daniels
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We got x,y and z?? We go back to A again???
Rack Daniels
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Gen Z Is Calling Gen X The "Karen Generation"
"They’re usually racist, homophobic, and transphobic, don’t believe in vaccines or climate change, and are mostly also the parents of Gen Z children."www.buzzfeednews.com
Look out GenX…
“The Karen generation”
So in lieu of that gem, does yelling at service industry employees or the housing market crashing give you more joy?
rtraverdavis
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You realize that we both got our signatures from each other? Such a frickin millennial thing to do…
Potsie
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Nope. Not me. I’m the best part of Gen X thank you very much.
Rack Daniels
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Glad to know I’m not the only long haired hippy….
LuketheDog
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Are you sure it's not '82, I think it's '82-96. I think I fall juuuust outside of that box...
Bigjay73
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I'm an old ass gen Xer. Only thing that ever saved my life was jarts landing in the right spot and just few enough toxins in the garden hose that it didn't poison me.Man it would have to suuuuuucckkkk to be both a millenial AND a non-resident. Talk about fate rolling you a pair of snake eyes..
And as much as I hate saying this.. maybe the WY wilderness law HAS saved a few of your lives though.
Boo!!! I will always push back on this narrative, at least for my age group.
Born in '87, Associate Degree education (finished in my late 20's), own 3 houses. I bought my first at 22 at the bottom of the market in 2009 (still own, now an Airbnb), bought another for family to live in close by at 30 (still own, admittedly tiny condo, family pays the mortgage), and bought my most recent at 34 last year (current primary home).
Sure, that first house made a significant impact on my ability to buy to the others, but if you're an older millennial you were likely of buying age during the bottom and lows of the market in 2008 and subsequent years. I had to borrower over $800 of my $1,000 earnest money from a friend and then paid them back with the first time homebuyer grants being handed out like candy during that time (thanks Obama, for real LOL). At the time for us it was $100/month more expensive than renting, but we went from a 1/1 with 750 SF to a 3/2 with 1,600 SF, plus future appreciation. It was a no brainer.
Yes, I had spousal income support. We were both making about $15/hour when we got married and bought that first house for $156K. No doubt it is much harder now, but my age group had a good chance for a while. Shoot, my FL house appraised for $275K in 2017 when we refinanced. Assuming another $600/month in other debt payments and a 40% DTI cap, an individual or couple only needed to be making +/- $70K to qualify for that mortgage. Down payment and closing costs would have been +/- $10K-$20K depending on the loan program (that would probably be the biggest challenge, but you're talking $1K - $2K per year in savings from 20 - 30 years old. Definitely doable.). But there were plenty of markets cheaper than that at the time.
Big, fat, qualifier: The market right now is crazy, of course. But if you've been an adult for a decade or more, there was reasonably affordable housing to be had for a stretch of time (and potentially very affordable housing for a short period of time).
Bullshot
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I bring up jarts when I lament nothing being fun and unsafe nowadays. Most people lately have no idea what I am talking about.
As for the hose, was there any more refreshing water than working or playing outside all day then drinking out of a running hose with no sprayer attached. Mountain spring water had nothing on it. Just don’t drink until it ran a bit, to avoid being scalded, swallowing a spider, or aftertasting PVC the rest of the day! Millenials dont know what they are missing!
rtraverdavis
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It’s hilarious to be thought of as an irresponsible whippersnapper while raising kids, paying a mortgage, building a new house, holding down a solid job that I enjoy and needed a masters degree to obtain, watching the grey hairs multiply in my beard, celebrating 17 years of baldness, looking forward to the bone crushing reality of turning 40 this Saturday (40! JFC, how is that possible?!) and frequently finding myself prefacing statements to my 8th graders without even realizing I’m doing it with, “Well when I was your age…” while pointing a crooked finger at them.
I’m a millennial. But I am an elder.
I’m a millennial. But I am an elder.
Potsie
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Hell, I still drink out of the hose. Got a couple hydrants around that pull straight off the well pump, nothing better at my house.
Little Big Man MT Chris
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noharleyyet
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It’s simple really, the greatest generation came home from war. They raised a bunch of hippie boomers, who in turn raised a bunch of hard partying gen Xrs and now us millennials are here to clean up the mess. Before you go talking smack remember who is paying for your SS and Medicare. We aren’t afraid to quit our jobs and live with our parents just to watch you old bastages not be able to afford your viagra, cable tv to watch Fox News, and the electronics you have no idea how to use.
