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Record Number Of Women Now Live In Parents' Basement, Lack Of Weddings Blamed
It was less than two months ago that we brought you “The Mystery Of The ‘Missing Inflation’ Solved, And Why The US Housing Crisis Is About To Get Much Worse.” In it, we documented the inexorable rise of rents in America which, thanks to the housing crisis, has gone from being a society of homeowners to a society of renters, wiping out two decades of “progress” on the homeownership rate in the short span of seven years.
Of course to a certain extent (scratch that, to a “great” extent), the market sowed the seeds of its own destruction by creating ever more “creative” was to allow everyone, even those who couldn’t document their income, to realize the American dream.
Now, the surge in demand for rentals coupled with the fact that because the cost of capital on Wall Street is zero allowing PE to compete with everyday homebuyers has left millennials effectively stuck between rents the can’t afford and homes they don’t qualify for. Throw in a post-crisis economy that churns out waiters and bartenders thanks in part to the fact the very same $1.2 trillion in student loans that are weighing heavily on recent graduates’ finances and you have the perfect setup for a return to mom and dad’s basement.
On Wednesday, Bloomberg is out noting that at an astounding 36.4 percent, the number of women age 18 to 34 living with their parents is now the highest since record keeping began more than seven decades ago:
Some 36.4 percent of women age 18 to 34 lived with their parents or relatives in 2014, the highest since records began in 1940, according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Research Center in Washington. While the share of young men was even greater at 42.8 percent, it wasn't quite as high as it was some 75 years ago.
But the punchline here is that the Pew Center blames this rather alarming statistic on school and weddings:
College enrollment rates for both full- and part-time students have generally increased over the past couple decades, and some students may be trying to offset stiff tuition costs by bunking with their parents.
Eternal happiness can wait. Millennials are much less likely to be married than their parents were at their age, and marriage often serves as an impetus to move out.
We'll close with Pew's take on the economy and Harvard's. Note the vastly divergent "opinions." We'll let you decide who's right:
Pew:
The increase is puzzling considering the improved state of the economy and an improving job market that has helped more young people earn enough to venture out on their own. Here are some of the longer term forces that could be at play.
Harvard:
Millennials are also expected to continue experiencing rent burdens as they age. Having entered the labor market during and following the Great Recession, those in the millennial generation have received lower wages and experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their older counterparts at this point in their lives. As a result, millennials have less wealth accumulated, have delayed forming new households, and are less likely to become owners at the age that older generations had previously. In combination, we are likely to see additional household formation by millennials over the next decade and expect a relatively higher share to remain renters during that period.
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Maybe if most of them wern't lazy self-centered bitches, with an enitilement mentality that the world owes them a living then some sucker might want to marry them. But since they start slutting out their beav at 15 by 25 that cooch has pretty high mileage. Hotdog in a hallway. Then they have unrealistically high standards for a partner probably.
Married here, for 35 years. But.... I've got a somewhat younger bud who can't do without a young, hot one. We have ALL been telling him to ease up.
It took him over 10 years of grief to get rid of Bezzelbub, his first, and then recurring nightmare. She finally got enamored with a dude with big bucks. I told buddy, be glad. While she is distracted, and before HE ( new guy) finishes with her, cut all ties. He did, sold the house....clean split.
Then dumbass got hooked up with a be-u-ti-ful blond. This little twinkle twat is smokin'. Two kids, by two differant dudes, should be a warning. We did they not swallow the hook?
They are NOT married....remember that.
She lives in his new house, with her two kids and mom, while he sleeps in his brother's basement.... By fucking Court Order!
Now he just admitted, she's knocked up.
I love this dude...but he's too fucking stupid and gone to help.
Not fiction.
Cant fix stupid. Pussy is the strongest drug ever ;)
What sate dies he live in?
I am currently in Washington state and there had been some extremely fucked up rulings here.
One case was over 10 years ago but it is some stupid that I will never forget it.
A man lived with his girlfriend and her kid from a previous relationship for a year and a half. They break up and she takes him to court.
He now gets to pay child support for a kid that she had before they even met. The judge said that the kid has bonded with him.
Another case was similar in that a man divorced his wife because she was cheating on him and got pregnant by the other guy.
The husband however is the one who will get to pay child support.
Yes, the judges & lawyers are simply pimps. As they become more feminized, replacing retiring male judges, it will only get worse.
Opposite coast. Rather not be specific.
But this fucking judge has piled tinder and doused it with gasoline.
This twat really feels no issue with staying in his house, with her mom and kids, AND having a new fuck buddy stop by and bang her out in my buddy's new king size bed.
And lord help my buddy if goes off or goes in. He WILL go to fucking jail. He will pay. She lied, and said he threatened to kill her. Police hunted him down, and $30,000 bail.
He just wants his life and house back, and her gone. Sadly, he is fucked. She never had it so good.
Let someone else learn from this, he didn't.
Yep. Studies show that more partners a woman has, the less likely she'll be able to bond with any one partner.
The cock carousel. The thousand cock stare. Slutface : you know it when you see it.
Alpha fucks/Beta bucks.
Chateau Heartiste, The Rational Male, Return of Kings, MMSL...
Lots of resources out there that help brainwashed men learn the truth about women, known by men for thousands of years, only recently forced from public discourse by Eskimo created feminism.
Marriage is like a city under siege - those on the outside want to get in and those on the inside want to get out
No, "Marriage is the victory of Hope over Experience"
i see young couples in rental houses that i wouldn't even want to pay that rent omg rent is high. how bad does their credit have to be not to qualify for a loan these days anyway? how can they have bad credit and still come up with that huge nut every month?
It's probably not their credit score so much as it is their debt to earnings ratio, thanks to student loans and evaporating jobs.
I'M betting the good looking chicks aren't in the basement. At a minimum, Dad let's them upstairs in hopes of a rich catch that will offset his under water mortgage and fuked pension. But then again, I'm an optimist. Besides, the good neighborhoods don't have basements - they have wine cellars
i'm guessing the parents must be subsidising at least some of the overhead so they don't have to listen to daddy's little angel shagging and drugging the night away.
They are Seeking Arrangement (TM).
You need to be careful when seeing those young couples in their houses - personally, I prefer NVG but to each his own Serves them right for being to cheap for curtains
you are aware that free (well lit) porn is available on the internet right?
LMAO.
The number of married men and fathers getting screwed over by the courts the past few generations is creating more and louder buzz that other men just can't ignore.
Marriage has become a wood chipper for men. And who in their right mind climbs into a wood chipper?
this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVKc6PBYvD0
ZIRPY - Your comment. Include me!!
By the way, if you see my little finger anywhere, or my left ear, please toss them back into the Wood Chipper. Thanks!!
As one who has been happily married for 24 years I can only attest to why, millennial day and age women are fucken nut jobs. And that is an actual field evaluation.
Well, with feminists like Melissa Click as their mentors what would one expect?
dementors
Oh, they've always been crazy. More importantly, any woman who come of age after 1970 knows, in the back of her mind, that she has an 'easy out' whenever she wants to use it. May you die before the bill comes due.
narcissitic, shallow, fat, and about as un-feminine as they can possibly be.
How bout the tattoo/piericing/shorthair/fat epidemic common amongst the under 30 women I see everywhere.
75 years ago the country was emerging from the Great Depression, so is that even a fair comparison?
I know things aren't good, but still.
That's only part of the picture. Homeowners back then usually owned them mortgage free with some farm land.
I'm GenX and therefore now just out of this demographic. But I'm fortunate enough to be happily single and know plenty of women in this situation- many carnally. I have a good job (for now) and was lucky enough to be born before the mass affluence ushered in by the Reagan Revolution. So compared to their traditional dating pool, I'm the lifeguard. Point being, I'm in and out of this conversation a lot, both with my platonic and non-platonic girlfriends. I prefer brains so I tend to date mostly professional women. I don't need to go into great detail commenting on why they're single. Most here know the top 5-10 reasons why- have enough money not to get hitched to a loser, focusing on career, prefer luxury goods to children, loans and other financial obligations, first marriage was a disaster, etc. But #1 for all is that they're absolutely dismayed by the quality and quantity of "good men." Basically, those under 50 are all living Superbad/Knocked Up/Old School. It's really, really bad out there. One need only peruse the female profiles on Tinder to see what these women are facing.
My only contribution to this thread is to say I think it's hilarious. The chickens of feminism have come home to roast. And virtually every one of them would and do agree (Again, these are all highly educated and/or successful women). They resent their forebearers. Few of them would necessarily want to go back to Mad Men days. But some would, and all would some. They recognize that in the wake of their success, the pie is only so large. And men have chosen to regress, no longer forced into adulthood by the traditional trappings of The America Dream (car, home, job, kids). A generation of men ("raised by women"), living a perpetual adolescence because we can, because our parents won't retire and because the rest of the world caught up. Art mimics life, and the frat guy paradigm so pervasive in modern entertainment (from schlub dad in sitcoms to schlub boyfriend in commericals to schlub men in movies) is simply a reflective mirror on us.
All that to say that this is the dark side of feminism. I hope you're happy, ladies. This is the result of being not only equal, but same. Which is a lie. You became more manly. But in the process, men became more effeminate. Go out in any major US city and the emo and metro insanity is truly depressing. Merkel, Yellen, and soon Hillary. You will soon run most of the western world. For the first time in human history. I wonder why that is? I suspect the answer is not a good one. And the consequences are only going to get worse. Just look at Japan to see the US 5-10 years from now. Multiple generations living under one roof. Your success freed (most of) us from having to do the same. So we didn't. And we therefore refuse to become adults. So you're left with a bunch of man-children. And so you're not marrying. And thanks to the Fed, you need two incomes (and a job in the mal-invested, QE-fueled sectors) just to afford a home. That worked for about 40 years, but it wasn't sustainable.
(Most of) you no longer marry to secure that comfortable home life ("the MRS degree") that Disney promised you. And we no longer need to marry for consistent sex. So that symbiotic relationship has dissolved. You give it away for free. (Madonna would be a prude in this era. Not compaining.) I'm mediocre and have four good women available to me tonight. All make more than me. And none nags me for more than that, because 1.) they don't want it and 2.) they don't want to lose a relationship with someone who is not a sociopath. Which seems to be a lot of GenY.
Burn your bra. And thank your mom. And go long vibrators.
GenX - you 'guys' are never accused of being men of few words.
anyone who writes a complete and proper sentence has my vote.
Smedley - Ya too many recursive summaries with us Gen Xers.
That and those bullseye tatoos that now look like a horrible frown when when wanting to hit it from behind.
But beats the thick black rimmed nerd glasses these days from millenials. I dont what bugs me worse, bankers or those. Hypocricy of boomers may come close...
Nice rant.
Holy shit dude!
how does an average, married 50 yo guy get in on this scene?
Easy.............just start hanging out at bars after work on Thursdays and Fridays instead of going straight home to the wife. Make something up. Tell her you're working overtime.
I don't know if you're honest by your question, but it really is all about getting yourself out there and making yourself visible. Nothings gonna happen if you stay at home.
Amen, every point made is spot on. As a millenial, I truly feel bad for women my age... There literally is immense lack of quality, non-pussyfied men, who have honor and are able to get things done. For fucks sake by being normal you get pussy because the competition is far below par... I can see the desperation in women.
No, in the free love post sexual revution feminist society of today all women get to ride the cock carousel and get dicked by alphas...for a time. Everyone takes home a fat chick once or twice so even the ugly fat chicks can get fucked by an alpha now and then. Meanwhile the bottom 60% of men can't get any play and by the time women start to look their way their libido has crashed and they don't see the point of risking their house and money and cushy lifestyle for some used up subpar cunt. A lot of men don't need a woman for much of anything in this day of massive pronography availability and fleshlights etc. The "alphas" that live to chase pussy get most of the women while the non-hypersexual men and "nice guys" get none.
The average woman in new Zealand has more sexual partners than the average man these days. Non reproductive sex is all anyone wants these days. In the pastyou had 1 girl cfor every guy but now it's 20 girls for every hypersexual alpha male. Family formation only happens when some chick manages to tri k an aloha into impregnating her and marriage.
Poignant. Your post is a thing of beauty, +1000 to you, Sir.
That was a very well-written post, but most of it just doesn't comport with my experience at all. The more I get to know and understand of men these days, the more I wonder why women would want to have anything to do with them; but on the other hand, the more I get to understand of women, the more I realize that they deserve exactly what they've got. Neither sex has a monopoly on stupidity, poor judgment, and a general lack of virtue.
This alone I can claim with certainty: It is very difficult for a good man these days to find a woman worthy of himself. And any man who affects a facsimile version of traditional manly virtues in order to chase "pussy" is ipso facto not really a good man and neither are the women who give it up to him, "good women." It doesn't matter whether he/she has a good job, makes money, is educated, is successful, etc. All of that stuff is cheaply had in this day and age, but real character, the ability to be trustworthy, to be pure of heart, to understand principles and stand up for them--that is as dear as it ever was, and probably more so.
I never checked Tinder. I did check out OKCupid once and was reminded why I hate 'It Takes a Village' Hildabeast with a white hot passion. OKC is a Who's Who of single moms who think they're entitled to 'happiness'. They freely enslaved themselves, and kids, to the state and still have the expectation of happiness.
"My only contribution to this thread is to say I think it's hilarious. The chickens of feminism have come home to roast. And virtually every one of them would and do agree (Again, these are all highly educated and/or successful women). They resent their forebearers. Few of them would necessarily want to go back to Mad Men days. But some would, and all would some. "
Much like a politician I suspect they will say anything to get in office (get a ring on the finger). Once they get what they want, you're fucked.
Bobbyrib - The ring is fine, the state license is the death bell. The old addage as to why a woman is smiling as she walks up the wedding aisle. That isnt the jewelry big guy.
Wayyyyy too many TV references I don't get. Typical genx retard zombie. I work with cunts like you. TV addicted morons. I bet you are a little nerd that never played football but you can tell us all about the Negro Felons League.
And you definitely talk about your team in the first person as if you are in the team.
Finaly some good news. For men.
Hey, where are the gals, telling us we are all wrong?
Ladies?
You must have missed this ZH post today.
There's an easy way to get kids out of your basement, no matter what sex they are.
Go back to dial-up.
That is funny and I gave you a green one for it..... but the truth is that most just use their phone.
Of course, who is paying for the phone?
I was going to say tear gas, but I suppose that would work also.
Fill the basement with water and say oh sorry.
It's no coincidence then that on passing by a high street bridal wear shop i thought to myself , look at those glum faces on the salesgirls ; whereas the next block down and passing by a funeral director i swear i could see 3/4 employees dancing to ' never give up on a good thing' . . . i could've been mistaken but it was definitely music from that era.
I am an outsider and I have seen a growing trend. Most american women are in the phase of becoming equal to men. They feel opressed I am not sure where that mentality was originated from. So they either go to the army, become lesbians or a feminist fighting for equal rights and equal pay. In the mean time the white men are busy dating asian women. When you get lots of asian women surrounding you like flies why would you not want to entertain and treat them with love. Those women are gaining an echelon status by marrying white men. Its all good. Bottom line I think american society either it can be men or women have lots of issues. Black or white they have lots of it. Its only getting started. Another 30 years down the road there will no pure bread asian woman to look at in America. It is all about recycling and waste management here in the good old USAA.
There's an old chinese proverb:
"Any woman that wants to be the equal of a man lacks ambition".
Well, it may not be a chinese proverb but it pops up every once in awhile whenever I win a game of Shanghai on the computer.
"Most american women are in the phase of becoming equal to men."
Equality, Absolutely NOT! They all want to be princesses, live like royality. Equality would be widely accepted.
When they have to sign up for Selective Service, then they will have achieved a full measure of equality.
Otherwise fuck off.
You are seeing millenia of Patriarchal Rule in Western society being transformed into Matriarchal Rule.
Didn't think that so many here would have been so 'blonde' about this rather obvious trend of the last 100 years. Now you know.
You should also know that whenever any society becomes too feminized, it gets taken over by a more masculine society.
Adapt accordingly.
Agree re:heading toward matriarchy.
If it weren't for government supports we would likely be farther along that path. Grandma, mom, daughter, and her kids too maybe all under one roof.
Think about it just a little and it isn't all downside for the men. Stay in your mom's house...yeah, she might nag you when you are home, but probably she still cooks and cleans for you. Then your sexual relationships can be very casual and low stress, because she will stay with her family and you with yours.
And under matriarchy illegitimacy isn't really an issue. if a baby come out of your own body and it isn't your child then you must be a surrogate mom for another woman.
Well, where do these 'professional' women get their jobs. Many from quotas and gov. work. What's behind that? Fraudulent fiat, of course. So, they are literally living on borrowed time.
Here's a case I know first hand. Years ago, I worked temporarily at a postal plant that has since closed down(yes, they have closed a few). At this plant, my female floor boss was pulling down over $77,000/year. They wouldn't even hire me due to my white maleness. To make sure none of us could get hired, they even created a new rule to refuse us vets' bonus points if you hadn't served in war time(I'm not making that up!). I only started there because I had vet points and they took those away while I was there.
Since my boss was not union, she lost her job when the plant closed. I don't know what happened to her, but I suspect she stole enough to last a lifetime.
Also I would say women think being married is like a slavery. They want to liberalize sex and like to enjoy the freedom of fucking every single eligible man. See after you screw two or three you find out its all the same and by the time you start looking for the one you are worth nothing. So sadly culture, money, law, power, freedom(fake) factoring into this ultimate phenomenon.
Also I would say women think being married is like a slavery. They want to liberalize sex and like to enjoy the freedom of fucking every single eligible man. See after you screw two or three you find out its all the same and by the time you start looking for the one you are worth nothing. So sadly culture, money, law, power, freedom(fake) factoring into this ultimate phenomenon.
You can say that again
And hasn't changed mind one bit.
As the old saying goes "why buy the cow, when you can get the cunt for free".
There's little place in working America for good honest men paid appropriately for their honest work. So they simply have dropped out of the system. Women suffer accordingly.
Who the hell didn't expect this to come about? The left teaches women they're victims if they make an emotional commitment to a man. To paraphrase the left's philosophy, its much better to just be a piece of pussy that crosses a man's path in the middle of the night and stand "strong" all alone, on your own. Lay this shit right there at the feet of feminazis everywhere. This is YOUR doing.
99% gets poor, 1% get rich, 0.1% very rich, 0.01% incredibly wealth. I am sure it will trickle down after a while.
1929 to the power of Dunning-Kruger. Marie Antoinette's brilliant foresight wrt base alternatives for existence.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/elitists-are-fundamentally...
Good. Men need to go their own way. No need to put a ring on it and be owned financially by the x wife and courts.
Just say NO.
As a friend of mine said, a real man always has a ride waiting.
What? You mean it's not because of the weather?
And this, I submit to you, is why our masters and their professional bootlickers are worried about the Millenials. The US economy finally ran out of jobs for Girl Fridays.
With all the actual work (that the men used to do) having been automated, outsourced or given to HB1's no upper-middle-class princess would touch if he were the last man on earth, a non-financial firm that still needs to at least pretend to be profitable only need so many Girl Fridays sitting around making up mission statements.
So upper-middle-class princesses with useless LAC degrees and whose daddies aren't important enough to insist a job be invented for them are moving back into their old rooms after graduation, with hope fading of their ever finding an employer willing to give them the money for their own place---never mind a husband.
Even NYT and Bloomberg hacks are finding it harder to ignore the fact something is wrong.
Cultural suicide and the poison peddlers have run out of buyers.
I'd up you 100 x if I could. Your comment is so fucking bang on, I'll remember it always.
Heading towards Japan, the US is. The guys in Japan rent the two hour hotel rooms for the free internet, unaccompanied by any (real) female. A bizarre culture there now. I think a lot driven by economics. Maybe it's a natural reaction to a sense of restriction of freedom and diminishing resources. Whatever it is, Japan is doomed if they keep on that track. Again, the same patterns: lack of money to get out, and they live home with their parents.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-...
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Obamawedding!
Free loader is a free loader
And their naked webcamming only brings enough for an occasional discount store jacket.
who would know that fucking unemployed blacks leave ya in your mom's basement with 3 bastard kids.. but that cock was great right?
After reading all these comments, I don't even remember what the article was. Oh yeah. Women living in their parents basements. The Feminists have reaped what they've sewn.
How's that "vote to unemploy potential mates with Mexican invasion" working out Hillary Bush voters?
Got batteries?
One could call it a "white male boycott" if race and sex were media issues.
No marriage is no babies. No babies is no young working people. No young working people is no consumption. No consumption is no GDP/inflation. The world is dying.
http://katchum.blogspot.be/2015/11/working-age-vs-consumer-price-index.html
White race is in decline because "men" are scared-to-have-kids-because-wife-will-take-money faggots and because women 1)know this and despise such "men, 2)"make careers", 3)are dumb as a plank and take the easy way through porn and similar.
Most of these factors are due to white-population-hating policies (perpetrated by WASPs themselves, which is mind-boggling actually!).
End result - islamization and afrikanization of once successful nations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rcc7xgD2dM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwl5kyjLGT8
"The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nikolaus_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi#Vi...
Yeah, WASPs run Hollywood, the financial system, the legal system, feminism, the Multikult, and academia. Fuckin' WASPs and their Anti-white Pogrom. There should be a final solution..
That was one of the best comments/threads I've read in a while. Funny as shit but also scary as shit.
Did Pre-Coup LBY have a higher homeownership rate than the USA?
Who in their right mind would want to marry the current crop of American bitche$??? Better to stay single or marry an asian woman.
Or eastern European.
This is the direction our leadership has chosen for us, Isnt it great! They are just so smart, the fucking Aholes they are! They cant work and take care of themselves cause there are no good fucking jobs. TPP will seal the deal.
Times coming when humans will eat humans ... just saying.
mmm....Soylent Green...mmm
Latest experience their either sluts, whores or prostitutes! Quality lately has been reduced...
Almost all western women have the same sexual experience and mileage on their holes as actual whores by the time they are 25, at the latest.
Why is 50 Shades of Gray the best selling book ever written? Who is reading it?
That's some depraved bitches out there pretending that they want 'nice guys'.
"nice guy" is female code for "disgusting beta male that will work himself into an early grave for his fat wife if he gets to stick his dick in her once a month and she shits out a couple of kids that may or may not be his. Someone to pay for her PhD after she's done riding the cock carousel and the alphas in the clubs don't want her anymore.
Long storey short, women want it all. They want to live like whores until they are 30 then find some chucmp betamale with a good job to leech off.
housewives of________, kardashians, miley cyrus, etc. look at the reason these cunts are famous; women/girls watch and learn attitudes, priorities and values. moral standards of the show "the bachelor".. fuckin embarrassing disgrace, and women eat this shit up.
They're strong independent women that don't need no man. These 160 pound land cows think their fat asses don't stink and they all want a 6'4 athletic millionaire. What 25 year old american cow would marry or even date an average man? None. They all think they deserve the alpha males. So they stay single after getting their pussies destroyed by the cock carousel until the pick up artist alphas don't even want them anymore. Seriously, these girls don't even have a kid and it looks like a bomb went off in their vagina. Disgusting.
Meanwhile a typical western man can easily marry a beautiful slender eastern European true Christian girl with good family values. And 10 or 15 years (or more( younger. Western women have simply made themselves worthless on the marriage market. Thanks to feminism.