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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by war1025 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:09AM (#24492330)
> "poor" people (less than $100,000/year)

How anyone making $100k can be considered "poor" is beyond me.

No wonder everyone on the West coast thinks being a Millennial sucks.

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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by racl101 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:35AM (#24492551)
Just like how you can live in a castle in middle America that costs $250K.

It's just part and parcel of living where everyone else wants to live.

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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by war1025 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:30AM (#24493602)
As someone in middle America with a not-quite castle that I paid $100k for, I'm perfectly happy with that trade off I guess.
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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by munificent on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:41PM (#24495910)
> where everyone else wants to live.

Another way to say that is "where the jobs are".

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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:37AM (#24492563)
Are people in the Middle/South getting jobs?
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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by war1025 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:29AM (#24493591)
I live in Iowa.

At least in my peer group people seem to be doing pretty well.

From my perspective here, Millennials aren't having any harder of a time integrating into society than anyone before them did.

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Re:The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now liv... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:14PM (#24500105)
Same here. The rust belt cities across the northeast and stretching into the Midwest don't seem to be doing that bad either.

I see the "jobs in places not SF or NYC" situation as kind of like how the people who spend MSRP minus $2k for a 5yo 4Runner feel the need to loudly proclaim how everything else is crap because they have this massive sunk cost they need to justify to themselves. All I know is my car starts every morning and I'm not making payments on it.

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