She was shocked to learn just how expensive it is to both apply for and rent an apartment.
    • shikitohno@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      The kid sounded like he had a plan of his own and was working towards it, so it might just be as simple as mom has a car and he doesn’t, or it’s his first apartment and she knows what to look out for when moving into a new one, which he’s never had experience doing. The article doesn’t make it sound like he’s some totally dependent man-child, but it also doesn’t elaborate enough to really say why she went along.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    77·
    3 days ago

    And her son wasn’t the only one struggling. Jess received a call from her eldest daughter, who was complaining that her husband was going to have to quit his job to take care of their kids because of how expensive childcare was. They were spending more on daycare than what he was earning.

    Obviously the solution is to ban abortion

  • Klanky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    59·
    3 days ago

    This is why I hate how media tries to stir up ‘this generation vs that’, and I refuse to fall prey to it. I’m 40 and I have so much respect for younger generations trying to make it now. It’s still hard enough for me and I can’t imagine how much harder it is for them.

    Also, even if I don’t get the stuff they’re into, that’s ok because the generations before me don’t get the stuff I’m into. People seem to get older and forget they were at one time considered the ‘lazy’ ones who liked ‘dumb’ stuff.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    304·
    3 days ago

    Moms of millennials are still taking them apartment shopping?

    Or they forgot to swap the generation on this one?

    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      I’d guess that it was to prove a point to someone who wouldn’t accept the world wasn’t how they declared it to be, despite being wrong.

      I mean, not all of them but some boomers are beyond impossible with this stuff. I think there’s a real denial in many of them because so many saw their wealth expload simply for buying a dirt cheap house or having a job you now need a degree for and all the real chances of slary progression have been taken away.

      I think it makes people start wondering where its coming from and, rather than think about that, they decide that things are fine or else they’d have to start thinking about one particular generations insatiable greed.