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Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com)
For a fun new entry into millennials are lazy, consider this: According to new data tracked down by Richard Fry for Pew Research, just 20 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds (Old Millennials, if you will) reported having lived at a different address the previous year. From a report on NYMag: In 2000, a full 26 percent of Gen-Xers -- then at the same age range -- had reported making a move in the previous year. In 1963, members of the Silent Generation moved at a 26 percent rate, too. The census data being used here doesn't include college-dorm moves prevalent with 18- to 24-year-olds, so those young'uns are left out of the analysis. The 20 percent rate is the lowest level of young adult mobility in half a century, Fry reports, and all this with millennials getting married, owning homes, and having kids less than previous generations. Student debt and less favorable lending rates may be driving down homeownership -- imagine that -- which further reduces movement. Psychologically, this also means that young adults are more stuck with their personalities and faded of memory compared with their more mobile peers.
Wha, wha. I don't care how they dress. I don't care what words they use. I don't care if they smoke pot all day, make art, or start the next google.
But F'ck em if they're going to shout and scream and carry on about how they know better than the rest of us and are entitled to everything we had to work for.
Houses are expensive. You don't get to just graduate from university and start a new life running with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths and an Audi in the driveway.
Earn your stripes millennial, or expect to be mocked and disrespected.