Sorry Chadley

[SnowDragon]

I too am only responding to the article which I obviously disagree with. Just look at the other side of the hill, what's the rent for an apartment the size of Portable Toilet anywhere in the Bay Area...$1,900 a month. Add that in on top of $5.00 bridge tolls, over-inflated gas, utility, groceries, and the fact that traditional jobs for college age kids have all been filled by 30 somethings.

Kids learn from their parents, so if living in excess seems to be their style you have to wonder where that behavior was ever encouraged. I spoil the hell out of my kids, but there is a difference between rewarding hard work and just giving them something.

I left that zoo known as California just because I didn't my 2 youngest to grow up with a value system based on how expensive your european sedan is or what brand of $200.00 sunglasses you are wearing. It didn't used to be that way in the Bay Area but things have change radically there over the last 20 years.

 

[waylonjessi4ever]

Yep ,its all crazy .I was in the south bay since i was 13 ,Cupertino .It wasn't that crazy then. My dad could have bought the condo we were in for 35K then. Who knew ? My nephew and his wife are in Boise ,doing very well .Able to buy a home with land and build a vacation home too. It is how they were raised that gives them values.
Gas is still almost 4 per gallon here. What my husband makes is a nice life anywhere else but here or ny city .Crazy .

 

[Clover~]

amen guys! My parents were very hard on me and I was lucky to get what I got! They both work so hard! my grandparents in their 70s work very hard! It makes me sad. My dream is to be successful enough to make sure they can all stop working! But I'm very worried about it. I promise I will work hard. Thank you parents for teaching your children how to make it in the world!

 

[EleanorR]

well a lot of us do everything right. we study hard in gradeschool and get good grades and get into a good college. Then when we graduate we're stuck with lots of loans and no job opportunities. So a lot of us have to move back in with the parents. My parents have even offered though I dont know if I will.

I know, Clover. I feel especially bad for the young people who are like you -- I have never detected a whiff of the "entitlement" mentality in your posts; you have done everything you were told would make you successful; and now: nada. Zip. No jobs, no prospects, and most despicably of all, ginormous student debt loans which keep all your tenured profs and the academic bureaucracies fat, sleek, and happy in their late-model luxury cars, while you look around in shock and despair at the actual economic landscape.

So many of your generation were flat-out lied to, mostly by the educational system. Your parents sincerely believed that a college degree was a sure ticket to upward mobility (since it was in their generation), but that was before the cost of an undergrad "education" spiraled up 500-1000% over the same costs during the 1960s-1970s, and before "colleges" began handing out Bachelor Degrees in Underwater Basketweaving and the equivalent (e.g., "Women's Studies,""Queer Musicology" etc. -- I am not making this up!).

Now many kids graduate in 5 years with 4-year degrees in utterly worthless majors, soaked in Culture of Death and Culture of Dependency/Victimology ideology, and with no discernible training in either critical thinking or practical skills. And the Real World has no use for them.

It makes me angry, especially for the decent hard-working kids like you.

OK -- Rant off.


P.S. Keyzy: You sound like an awesome mother. Your kids may have no idea now how lucky they are to have you, but I assure you that some day they will be most grateful!

 

[Desertfremen]

These kids may not have been taught right by their parents but any kid with half a brain should have long figured out that all those lines were nothing but BS.

It's hard for me to place me. Technically I'm gen x but I was born late: the baby of the family my bro and sis being 10 and 11 years older than I. I was the "oops"!

Even when I was in school as a child in elementary school I could see the direction they were taking this in and had very early on figured out it was all BS. That's why I gave up on keeping good grades in school: I couldn't keep vomiting out the crap they wanted me to back at them.