This is why I avoid residential work. Did it once for a couple months and never want to do it again. Boomers were always the worst since they think a show up charge was going to be $15. Yeah, 2 of us went to a boomer couple to replace a blind that was not covered under warranty (the blind was fine, they were just crazy), and when we said $50, they thought we were robbing them of everything. Fucking boomers man.
This one boomer couple tried to claim that yes, they can change the dimensions of the windows on the new build whenever they want. I pointed out it's not in their contract and that it's going to be like 10 grand. If they wanted it changed. It really would only be a few thousand, but these people were being pushy assholes the entire time during the build. That's the I don't fucking feel like dealing with your price.
You're generally right about both and I'd even argue that a lot of every generation shares this golden ratio of mouth breathing fuck ups to normal people. For boomers, it's entitlement and selfishness that manifests itself a slightly different way to millennials mostly due to economics. The worst of both generations (and Gen X and Zoomers) have many commonalities as pointed out by @Squanto Airi
If you look at the media saturation - would it be wrong to say its a bit of column A and column B?
Did you try quoting them 2x the market rate and then let them negotiate you down to 1.5x the market rate? A boomer pulling these stunts isn't asking for a second opinion.
Maybe just maybe, if we young folks can finally afford a home then we'd be finally be motivated as a people.
Midwit personal finance.
Somehow I always seem to get discounted rates. I think a lot of people don't grasp the concept that if you don't act like a total dick, you don't get the dick tax.
I just hope their stuff doesn't get eminent domain'd, scammed off, or gobbled up by banks or anything. Things might get serious these next few decades... it's best to prepare now.
If there's a plan, it's that. Take all the dead boomers' shit and give (rent) it to the New Americans (and English, and Australians, etc).
A lot of boomers tied their net worth/retirement plans in their house. Their entire retirement plan was to sell at record high prices and then move to a place like Tucson, Arizona for record low prices. Except they’re finding no takers for their house and housing prices are sky high at retirement-friendly cities like at Arizona, Florida, etc.
They're already shitting up Tennessee. I genuinely wish the elderly could be banned from moving between states. They're a plague and a cancer wherever they go. Just build giant cruise ship necropoli so they can be exiled from the land and stored at third-worlder crewed nursing homes til the day they die. Think of it. 100's of millions of boomers from around the globe anchored off the coast of Africa and India being catered to by 70 IQ retards. This has to be cheaper than leaving them in their country of origin.
I’m not surprised, I just figure they will invade any warm state with a relatively low COL. Their original plan about moving to Florida and Arizona is no longer viable because they seriously thought they themselves were the only ones planning to go there and are now flummoxed that costs of living there have shot up. Tens of millions of boomers are in the process of executing this plan. The 2030s and 2040s are going to see an interesting change in demographic shifts.
This is the single greatest distinction between boomers and prior generations of elderly. Boomers view the young like vampires, as a resource to be exploited. They have abandoned the ancient social contract to benefit their offspring so that the future is more successful than the present. In olden times, an elderly woman is committed to supporting her children however she can, by spinning yarn, minding the children, or being active in the kitchen. Now, the elderly live apart from their children and view them as playthings that are to come, entertain them, and then leave. Laboring until death to support their families is abhorred as an infringement upon the true god of boomers, themselves. This is why they think nothing of driving up home prices and make an effort to spend down their entire networth before death. They will not be around in the future to eat bread, so why not eat the seed corn? They will never know famine either way. Better to steal the plenty from the future than reject even the slightest element of hedonism.
Huh? I thought that was a zoomer thing!
oh man, way back in the day, I remember an episode of Cops where some old boomer (or possibly pre-boomer) bitch called the cops on some kids playing basketball in a cul de sac near her driveway. The basketball hoop went into her driveway just a tiny bit.
Boomers will not be left out.
I don’t even think all of them are bad people nessecarily, they grew up in relatively stable times in comparison to now, I mean you see a lot of Boomers get upset about what Millenials and Gen Z choose to wear for clothing (some of it is fair but some of it is not) a lot of them literally can’t cope with the decline the elites in their generation are responsible for, I honestly think they’re molded by bad societal trends, I mean in a strange way there’s a lot of repeated culture around every 4 generations for example Gen Alpha gets shit for being iPad addicts but I do see positive traits with some of them in spite of that, a lot of them see the current political culture (17-19 year olds) and are honestly quite aware of how bad things have gotten and don’t see a path forward, they have even less faith in electoralism than Gen Z does and that’s saying something, Gen Alpha will have a weird advantage in having the conservatism that Boomers have but also having had their youth in a time of bad economic conditions, which probably is optimistic for the long term but not the short term
