Originally Posted by
Honky Tonk
I don't totally agree with your conclusions. If "young people" have $1700 a month to spend on a cracker-box sized apartment @ the Broderick, without building any equity, $7 cups of coffee, and $10 Ho' lettuce, they certainly have money to spend on cars, houses, and swimming pools. I think it's more a question of a different set of priorities and values. Also "the job" has changed dramatically in our lifetime. It seems to me, young people want to have the freedom to be able to pick up and move to new locations, where as our generation was more into homesteading, then accumulating as much material goods as possible.