'Gen Y' my ass
Doing research for an assignment and trawling through some reports on various things, I come across this phrase:
"So why are around 2 million Gen Ys still living with their parents? Is it that access to mum and dad’s car and washing and catering services make it just too comfortable to leave home? Or are they studying hard and/or can’t find jobs and so simply can’t afford to move out?"
HMMM. Or it could be that house prices have been pushed so high and rental vacancies are so low that WE CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE TO LIVE. It's partly an issue of money, as per the last sentence, but it's also that there is nowhere to go. efwjioew
*angry*
I'm sick of hearing people like me - twenty and living with parents - characterised as lazy slackers by people who were students in times where house prices were a fraction of what they are now and it was easy as anything to rent. My mum bought her first house when she was still at university. Who the hell does that now?
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I'm often full of rage at older people dissing young people. I just don't vent it on LiveJournal. More often than not I vent at my dad.
"So why are around 2 million Gen Ys still living with their parents? Is it that access to mum and dad’s car and washing and catering services make it just too comfortable to leave home? Or are they studying hard and/or can’t find jobs and so simply can’t afford to move out?"
HMMM. Or it could be that house prices have been pushed so high and rental vacancies are so low that WE CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE TO LIVE. It's partly an issue of money, as per the last sentence, but it's also that there is nowhere to go. efwjioew
*angry*
I'm sick of hearing people like me - twenty and living with parents - characterised as lazy slackers by people who were students in times where house prices were a fraction of what they are now and it was easy as anything to rent. My mum bought her first house when she was still at university. Who the hell does that now?
...
I'm often full of rage at older people dissing young people. I just don't vent it on LiveJournal. More often than not I vent at my dad.