With a whopping 95mln people in their 20s and 30s, millennials make up America’s biggest generation. And they’re the grown-up kids of baby boomers, the second biggest generation there is.
But the differences between these two are bigger than life. While boomers love spending their weekends making a day-long meatloaf, their kids order the world’s cuisine as take-out with friends. And it goes beyond that. A 2018 report by the Federal Reserve Board, for example, stated that millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth, in general, compared with their parents.
Thanks to the recent surge in “me vs. my parents at my age” memes, people have managed to capture the subtle and (sometimes very obvious) generation differences. Both absurd and hysterically funny, these memes will probably feel very close to home, and if they do, they will definitely crack a smile or two.
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So true. My parents paid less than $30,000 for their house in the 80’s which is about $100,000 in todays money. To buy a house like theirs these days you are looking at paying over $340,000 and need a 5-10% deposit to get a loan, PLUS money to pay things like stamp duty, application fees, inspection and conveyancer etc.
The house my parents bought in 1991 was $93,000. Two stories, about 2200sqft on a 1/4 acre plot. My condo I bought in 2010 was 95,000; less than a mile away from the house. About 1100sqft no land. Sold it in 2018 for 150,000. Inflation is stupid.
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Opposite for me. I'm 42 and still renting. My daughter and her boyfriend are 23 and they have saved enough to pay for almost half of a few large properties they are looking at that cost almost $200,000. I screwed up my life because I had way to much fun in my 20's.
Likewise in British Columbia Canada...a one bedroom apartment for 300,000 maybe...
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Older people are responsible for both the wholesale destruction of the environment, mainly because they allowed the manufacturing of goods without burdening neither the producer nor the consumer with the environmental cost of it, and for the steep rise in the cost of housing. When housing is used as an investment instead of as a home, then the property prices will rise. The cost of housing also increases with an increasing population. When you add to this that the relentless marketing created by the same generations in order to generate more sales has lead to practically all people owning much more stuff than they need then that leads to a new need of more space to house it all, a walk-in closet or simply more closets instead of one wardrobe, a larger kitchen to house all the different appliances that we harder ever use, more bedrooms even though most of us have fewer children
My grandparents bought their house for £6000 in the late 40's and sold it for over a million in 2010, it goes way further back than parents.
I smile when I remember my grandfather describing how worried my grandmother was about paying $120 a month for a new house.
Nonsense. I am peak a peak boomer. You couldn't buy a trailer for 10k. About 80k at 13 to 15 % is more like it.
Total nonsense. You couldn't buy a trailer for 10k in 1984. Our 1st house was 1370 sq ft. and cost 85k at 13% interest in a decent working class neighborhood. It's no different now than was then. Stop listening to poor pitiful me and do something about it.
Remote work. And you think that life like Thoreau in Walden is not a bad idea.
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To find out more about “me vs. my parents" memes, Bored Panda reached out to Alaina Stamatis, who has been running the popular Instagram meme account @Fad_albert. It has a solid fanbase of 31k followers who love the humorous content and spot-on jokes.
Alaina explained that memes are basically inside jokes about the human experience that you have with thousands of people. “The ones I make are inside jokes with anyone whose brains have been melted on mushrooms,” she said about her content. Alaina’s recent “me vs. my parents" meme amassed 11.2k followers.
“At first glance, the 'my parents vs. me' meme is about emotional maturity. My mother had me when she was 29 (and my father even younger), whereas I at 29 was just sobering up from a decade of alcoholism. I was struggling to keep a plant alive, much less an infant.” But on a further note, Alaina added that she’s “almost 35 now and recently became a parent, and it’s going very well!”
Meanwhile, viral “my parents vs. me” memes are also about “economic stability; the average cost of a home is 3x what it was when we were babies, but incomes certainly aren’t triple,” she added. In reality, “adolescence is getting longer and longer,” and this is what the memes are making fun of.
Alaina said that while her memes are more about psychedelic experiences—“I make fun of hippies and I am one”—she said that a good meme is one that makes you laugh instantly. “I know a meme is going to do pretty well if I’m laughing while I’m making it. If I show it to my husband and he laughs, then I know I’ve struck gold,” she concluded.
Oh, oh, Corona. Ah, ah, Corona. No matter what age you are, this is still the year 2020. Not even democracy-hating Trump stands a chance against the handouts of corona misery to all, rich and poor, all over this world.
Not sure how old this person is, but the whole housewife thing was already dead when my parents were young in the 70ies.
Well, 22 is too young to get married and have a baby anyway, in my opinion.
It's not the government stopping you. The government isn't doing enough. It's the virus stopping you. Stay in lockdown os you don't die plz
I stopped reading after #12. I can only read the same meme so many times.
I'm a bit confused by the parent's relationship. It seems rather toxic... From 22--25 they talk about getting married, from 23--26 they want to have their first baby, at 29 they want their 4th baby(?!) but they also hate each other.
Marriage isn't for everyone. Buy better iphone, it's much easier.
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To sum this article up : 'Let's have a baby' = respond with something childish and immature.
So basically the parents matured really fast, and their children take more time to mature.
Or doesn't want/can't afford/are not able to/prioritized differently than their parents
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My mom at 19: Omg I can't believe he left me for another girl what am I gonna doooo Me at 19: Ahaha this meme is so good I wish I could like it twice
And yet they still blame millenials for everything that's wrong with this world. Who the f**k raised them, idiots???
Load More Replies... I stopped reading after #12. I can only read the same meme so many times.
I'm a bit confused by the parent's relationship. It seems rather toxic... From 22--25 they talk about getting married, from 23--26 they want to have their first baby, at 29 they want their 4th baby(?!) but they also hate each other.
Marriage isn't for everyone. Buy better iphone, it's much easier.
Load More Replies... To sum this article up : 'Let's have a baby' = respond with something childish and immature.
So basically the parents matured really fast, and their children take more time to mature.
Or doesn't want/can't afford/are not able to/prioritized differently than their parents
Load More Replies... My mom at 19: Omg I can't believe he left me for another girl what am I gonna doooo Me at 19: Ahaha this meme is so good I wish I could like it twice
And yet they still blame millenials for everything that's wrong with this world. Who the f**k raised them, idiots???
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