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 other could raise 2 kids in a 3 bedroom house (my now-retired coworker did this).
YOUR generation was the generation where you could wash dishes to put yourself through college and law school (my uncle did this).
MY generation canât 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.
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.
MY generation is in student debt on average $29,400. Â And we have scholarships but they only cover 40% of the cost and when law school costs $120k for 2 years, you do the math.
So donât tell me that itâs MY GENERATION that fucking things up. Â Weâre only 25, we didnât get in to the war in 2001 (we were 11 years old), we didnât de-fund mental health institutions in 1975, we didnât decide that grants and scholarships should be funded less and tuition should cost more, we didnât raise the housing market 7000% (my childhood home was bought for $95k and sold for $750k 20 years later). Â MY GENERATION didnât do any of that, YOUR generation did.
So donât tell me I âjustâ need to âget a better jobâ or that I âonlyâ have to send my kids to âa good school.â  Because it doesnât work like that anymore.  And donât blame me.
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