You’re considered a loser if you still live with your parents and work minimum wage past 24
Were the 90s really like that?
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Youre considered a loser if you still live with your parents and work minimum wage past 24
If you live with your parents past 22, Are a Virgin past 19 or make minimum wage past 21 you are a fricking loser and it's over for you
moved out at 27
lost it at 18
made ok money at 24
I did ok
Good lad
We're reversed on the first two. Moved out at 18, but was a virgin until 27. Not khhv, just couldn't seal the deal until late in the game because I was a pathetic dork. Still stuck at low-mid pay, but at least I won't be a wizard.
If I could have stayed at home I could have had 150k in savings
Moving out is expensive but I enjoy the peace
It was very expensive, but I grew up in my great grandmother's apartment building and had had enough of that when I turned 18. Moved out 5 days after my birthday and never looked back.
Moved out after graduation
Lost at 17 (technically 16 but it was a few weeks to my birth)
About 24 When I started making double digit pay (I.e. over 10 bucks)
>33, married, just had a baby
>1600sqft home in a small midwestern town of about 2000
>good neighbors, everyone keeps to themselves
>enough backyard for a garden and the dog to run around
>town is 98.6% white, the next town is about a 25 min interstate drive through basedbean fields
>wife and I both WFH with call center jobs making just over 100k combined
>have family that lives 5 mins away
idk, life seems pretty good guys
which state?
>small midwestern town
NOOO YOU HAVE TO LIVE IN A COASTAL MAJOR CITY AND PAY THOUSANDS FOR RENT >:(
Good on you man, seriously. I hope to be as lucky as you some day.
>apparently innocent, purely descriptive/factual usage of the text string "s_o_y" still auto-filtered
>Moved out at 18 to go to university in a different city
>lost virginity and got first GF like a month into uni (broke up later)
>Got a proper adult office job at 23 which I still have, and have moved up in
>Got second GF at 24
>GF became fiance this year at 29
>Doing a masters degree and graduating this year just before I hit 30
I did okay, but somehow it never feels like enough and I always compare myself to others who got further, did more, did it younger, experienced more exciting things, made more money, etc. Guess you can never fully be happy through that lens. Hope you anons are just doing your best.
>Are a Virgin past 19
...are you a pedophile?
This might be the biggest cope I've ever seen on any thread ever
>YOU SICK FRICK
Over for me
You're not alone brother
i already knew i was a loser before all those things happened to me. i kinda had an inkling i was a loser when i went my whole childhood never having any friends LOL!
>tfw stayed a "never move out loser" so long, now im instead seen as a "good guy" by the neighbors and friends who used to call me loser, because now im a le hecking good guy who selflessly dedicates his life to care for his elderly parents
my slacker lifestyle did not prepare me for this
yeah everything was fricking cheap my parents had a house in their 20s.
if you still live at home at 21, you're a loser
imagine being an adult male that needs to rely on another male for shelter
if you think that's bad I've met Cinemaphileirgins that are like 25 and still think videogames are their purpose in life
Jokes on you I live and my wife's parents house.
Please tell me this hasn’t been going on for too long and that you’re close to having a down payment saved up.
We already have an apartment in town to our name (and a shitty block of land) but she just thinks being a scrooge by any means is the most based thing a man can do so and losing potential income is cuckoldry we rent it out and stay here.
Seething israelite thread
found the total fricking loser, oh and what a suprise, he's a /misc/cel lmao
Yeah we all know the most successful people are leftists who are terminally online and post on sites where they're not welcome to try to "change the culture".
>Yeah we all know the most successful people are leftists who are terminally online
yeah they're called tech bros.
>YOU'RE NOT WELCOME ON MY SUPER SECRET WEBSITE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME BELIEFS AS ME!!!
lmaooo get a load of this fricking tard
You're not welcome but I will just call you a homosexual and move on. Now I wonder what would happen if I went to whatever shithole leftist cuckbox you came from and started posting right wing stuff.
Hit a little close to home?
>"it's cause of trannies that I suck!"
lol get a job
the 90s were like shangri-la compared to today
gen x complained about having cushy well paid white collar jobs and owning their own apartments like it was some grand existential crisis but never could've imagined that the majority of gen z would be living with their parents, have no assets and dipping their disposable income into onlyfans
only breeders have to care about any of this shit (no need to get defensive)
>trying to shame people into taking out a loan
Nah I'm good
>Were the 90s really like that?
Yeah because housing was affordable and wages weren't shit. We're living in a new Depression; but our government is gaslighting us to think everything is great.
30yrs old, work 51 hours a week for 72k, RBT. still a loser rentoid though
renting is perfectly fine if you manage your assets right. everyone pushes being a home owner but it's really not a big deal. throw your cash into index funds and let it grow instead of having to put 20% down on a house that you'd be paying only interest down for 12 years.
Why do we need to have one of these threads in the catalog at all times? If I see that goddamn Simpson house copypasta again I'm going to fricking lose it. We all know what the answer to your question is. Do we really need a constant reminder of how badly we all got fricked over by boomers, Blackrock, degree inflation, and the Fed? I come to Cinemaphile to escape my shitty life, not to be inundated with reminders of how much better everything used to be.
escapism is bad
you should find ways to propel yourself from gloom in the embers of entertainment this place offers
yeah I'd rather have coomer threads, at least people get a laugh or 2 there.
thes threads are just hugboxes for sad men
>I come to Cinemaphile to escape my shitty life
And that is precisely why it will remain shitty.
>boomers, Blackrock, degree inflation, and the Fed
How else would anons brag about how good they have it?
It's okay i do know I'm a loser. Don't need to prove anybody otherwise
You could rent an apartment in the 90s for $300-$400.
>You could rent an apartment in the 90s for $300-$400.
not making the point you think you are
$800 is beyond doable. You don't think most people actually make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, do you?
https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/united-states/
>As of April 2024 median rental price for a 1 bedroom apartments and condos in the United States is 1300 dollars
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/
>the average cost of rentals is 1700 dollars
I pay 1600 for a one bedroom near Los Angeles
You realize those prices are skewed as frick by overpopulated places like San Fran, Seattle, LA, NY... Majority of people living in the US aren't paying anywhere near 1300 for a 1 bedroom, that'd be half that in a non cucked city.
If by "overpriced place" you mean "any decent area of any notable city or suburb of one", which is where most people in the US live, then sure.
>any decent area of any notable city
Yes with all the homeless junkies on the sidewalks everywhere you go.
the good jobs are in these locations despite the homelessness. you aren't gonna get a high powered position in bumblefrickberg where the rent is cheap and their most notable location is fricking safeway.
>live in the midwest in a comfy small town
>pay $600 a month for a mortgage
>paint your walls whatever color you want
>be able to fix your own shit instead of depending on someone to "get around to it"
>grow a garden in your backyard
>not hear other families through paper thin walls
>sit out in your sunroom and drink coffee in the mornings
>sit in your sunroom and drink beer in the evenings while watching the lightning bugs
>have any kind of pets that you want
>walk your dog after work without having to dodge traffic and crowds of people
VS paying $1300 a month to live in a cube amongst a hive of cubes in a major city filled with concrete and immigrants. I'm not knocking it but I don't see the appeal myself
Of course it's a nice life, but cities are the cultural, political, educational, and industrial centers of a country, disproportionately so. There's always going to be an attraction to them and for some kinds of work, it's basically impossible not to be near a major urban center.
The small town dream would be more realizable if remote work was more universal. A lot of people are fighting for it now but our corporate overlords seem pretty insistent that they want to watch us suffer in the flesh. Probably because they have their hands in the property markets.
Yes, but that comfy midwestern lifestyle described here
is almost entirely dependent on having a decent paying WFH job if you’re white collar.
1300? lol try 1800 - 2200 for a decent studio in a non jogger or taco infused environment
1bd 1br studio apartment in a crappy dogshit spot in rockville is like double that price
in my city of 300k you can get a studio in the center of downtown for $675 a month. coastalgays are so dum. if your col is ridiculous just move lol
>if your col is ridiculous just move lol
I'M LITERALLY ENTITLED TO LIVE WHEREVER I WANT WHY DO I HAVE TO MOVE TO A PLACE I CAN AFFORD, I WANT TO LIVE IN THE CENTER OF TIMES SQUARE FOR $800 A MONTH
Cheap in 2024 for anything beyond a studio
Not only that, boomers always tell their "rock bottom" story of working random jobs and living with people in an apartment and sleeping on the couch, when the reality was they were paying 100$/month to sleep on a couch and leech off the fridge for free. That's fricking insane, practically no money at all. Imagine some zoomer telling gen alpha in the future their "rock bottom" moment was working random jobs and paying 400$/month for a studio apartment? It would be laughable.
27, 100k remote job, live with my parents with no intention of moving out. Imagine not saving >90% of your income
What's ur remote job?
what is the job
Yeah, that's how easy life used to be. If you were 24 and couldn't manage to have your own place it's because you were just a lazy moron and probably addicted to drugs. Now If you're under 30 and not living with your parents it's a miracle and you probably make 6 figures or close to it.
I would eat a toilet bowl full of shit for a house of my own
who's shit? very important question
anyone that isn't diseased
How much for a down payment?
just a downpayment? ehhh a couple spoons of shit and a full bladder of piss sounds fair
YOU GOT ME THE EXPANSION PACK
yeah. is it not like that today?
My parents have always told to never rent. They would literally have me live at home and help around the house then give my money to a landlord
>don't pay a landlord
>just pay a bank for a mortgage and pay the city taxes on the property every year
House is already paid off, property taxes are gay
People change their jobs a lot these days, especially once they have some experience in a lucrative industry. It's just not feasible to buy a house every time you relocate for work.
Your parents are moronic and don't know shit about finances.
Giga israelite right here.
>understands how interest works
>israelite
oy vey, goym
How dare those leftists point out financial inequality and a rigged system instead of feuding with brown people over the crumbs we're given
>please argue politics with me for an hour
>i dont wanna get political
>brings up trannies, Trump, and leftists out of nowhere.
Which is brought up in a thread posted to argue politics.
So what's the problem?
The thread being posted.
Fair
>its cool only when the rich does it
Alrighty then
I'm just mad my family had a gigantic brownstone in NYC and some glueeater ancestor of mine fricking sold it early and moved to roanoke virginia
Yes
You zoomers always talk about making so much fricking money and how everything is expensive.
40 inch tv for $150.
Demanding a tip for being a cashier
Able to afford $20 delivery fee for McDonald's
Frick you gays.
>Be me, work as a retail store vendor
>Have to go to several stores in my territory
>Get along with one of the girls at my store
>Start talking to her
>She gets touchy and smiles at me
>Want to wait until I leave my job to ask her out
>Few months later, abruptly quit job because of manager
>Decide to go to her store on my day off at new job
>See her with a baby bump
>live in my own apartment
>rents help pay rent
>mom does my laundry and cleans
>last frick was in college 10 years ago with a chick who had a tampon in
>havent spoken to a girl since
>no savings
>deadend job
>older brother has a family, career, house, dog, kids, and fricking beach house
haha
Vengaboys Vengabus and chill yourself dead from killing yourself
I've been a kid my whole life and growing up and getting a job and moving out feels impossible to me. Like I am just not made for it. I can't imagine ever doing a serious job long enough without getting fired for being too slow or making too many mistakes. I can't imagine ever getting a drivers license... People with down syndrome are more productive than me. I hate myself but I just can't find the strength to change even though I feel miserable every day. I am not some smug NEET who enjoys playing video games all day.
this is me in my friend group, still making min wage at 33 while the rest of my friends are well into the six figgy club, one friend just bought a second home. me still renting with virtually no savings
All cartoon characters are rich, because cartoons were written and directed by people connected to the wealthy elite. It is very difficult to get a project you've worked on to air in mainstream TV unless you have connections, which usually means you are connected to elites. Hence, most media in general is actually from the perspective of the wealthy elite, written and directed by the wealthy elite. Even media about the poor, is from the perspective of the wealthy.
>Stu Pickles
Owns a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom, 2 story house with a garage, owns a car, lives in SoCal (which is an expensive area), has kids, he's apparently a failed toy inventor with no stable income
>Squidward
Despite working as a cashier under the cheapest boss imaginable Squidward owns a fully furnished 2 story 2 bedroom 2 bathroom with a library and a gallery. His house is so large he has an elevator. He can afford to pay for several expensive hobbies such as music, painting, sculpting, and ballet and owns artwork. He also owns a bike and a boatmobile,
>Rocko
Is 20, works as a cashier but owns a 2 story house with a garage, a living room, and at least 1 bedroom and bathroom, and a car
>Homer Simpson
The Frank Grimes episode
>Peter Griffin
Owns a 2 story 4 bedroom 1 bathroom house, can support multiple kids, works in a brewery while his wife is a part-time teacher
Silicon Valley effect
>our product just needs gigabit wifi
>everyone has that
>we are so fricking smart. This will sell so well
A lot of animated shows from both 90s and 2000s have families living in ridiculous rent until the recession happened
Homer as a safety inspector
Al Bundy as a shoe salesman and with a stay at home wife
Hank Hill as a propane sales man
The Friends cast
The Seinfeld cast
Kevin James a UPS delivery driver
Hank’s home was actually realistically modest and Texas suburbs are pretty cheap.
>Stan Smith as a CIA agent
>Fry and Bender are members of a delivery company
>SpongeBob and Squidward are wagies working at a fast food joint
>Hal in Malcolm in the Middle works at a cubical office
>Fraiser as a radio host
>Ray Romano works as a sports writer for a magazine company
CIA agents get paid big bucks
True, which is why Stan in American Dad was lucky to have a decent two-story home with his stay-at-home wife and two children (one a teenager and the other a college dropout YA), as well as an attic where his alien Roger could live
Frasier’s show was syndicated back during the very lucrative 90s radio market.
This was during a time when talk shows on the radio were huge until podcasts took over
The realistic ones here are
>Hank Hill
Texas isn't that expensive and his home was a pretty modest 1 story house with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and an attached garage.
>Stan Smith
Worked at the CIA for 15-20 years, definitely made big bucks, at least $150k-$200k.
>Hal
I honestly don't remember much about the layout of their house, but an office drone job can still pay pretty well, the administrative assistants at my job make over $60k and I make almost $75k as an accountant.
That said, if they live in California then they'd be fricked.
I don't think this one counts, but I do know Earl Sinclair worked as a tree pusher
i think stu's israelite wife is the breadwinner, she's a teacher with ties to the psychiatric elite and his own yuppie brother bails him out offscreen constantly which he lords over him with
See in the 90s, homes were still relatively cheap and two people working $15/hr jobs could easily afford one
imo here’s the other factor: The types of 3br/2bath middle class homes that were common in the 90s are practically nonexistent now. All the new housing developments where I grew up seem to be giant McMansions squeezed in right next to each other with barely any lawn space. Meanwhile, I grew up in a relatively modest house but with a huge 1.5 acre yard.
My dads a general contractor. In the 90s he primarily built houses, but now its almost entirely renovations. The land in our city has plainly been used up. Anything new is a mcmansion because either the developer or the loaded homeowner wants some fricking bang for their buck. Empty lots go for about the same as lots with houses now, making the problem even worse (not even mentioning much high construction costs across the board, labor, materials, and insane bureaucracy even in a red state)
I didn't have to deal with this, but it's because my parents bought a second house and just let me keep the first one
Do parents not normally do this?
18 year olds in the 90s and earlier refused to live at home and were heavily motivated to move out ASAP. With the internet and smartphones there's a lot less motivation and more complacency in the world. I graduated high school in the 90s and literally everyone I went to school with moved out almost immediately evening if it meant working two jobs. Milennials and zoomers will never understand the hustle and grind of the average teenager last century
Parents bought a now 1.4 million dollar house for 110k over 20 years ago. You literally just had to go outside to make it.
>WHY AREN'T YOU PAYING 70% OF YOUR INCOME AFTER TAXES AS RENT TO LANDLORD SHEKELSTEIN, STOP BEING A FRICKING STINGY butthole AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMY YOU FRICK!!!! FRICKING VIRGIN INCEL LOSER!!!!!
>friends all move out when I'm in my teens/early 20s
>I stay home
>I am apparently a "loser" for this in the eyes of society but the numbers make sense to me so idc
>friends pay out the ass for rent, pissing their money away, deal with all kinds of drama and bullshit with roommates, I save money in a peaceful environment
>I buy a house at 28
>friends all still renting in their mid-30s and will probably never be homeowners at this rate, most living paycheck to paycheck due to absurd rent prices that keep rising, have nothing to their names
>meanwhile I have a yard, garden, shed, going to add an in-ground pool next year if plans line up
>recently had an old friend crash at my place for a while because he broke up with his gf and couldn't find anywhere he could afford to live
Please young anons, don't let israelites meme you into being a rentoid. There is zero glory in it. If you have a good relationship with your family, save your money. Don't piss it away on nothing. Obviously if it's toxic and you need to gtfo, that's one thing. But if you can get along with your parents, just stay.
No woman in your life?
Yes, been dating 3 years but I didn't brag about it because I'm thinking of dumping her soon, our values are deviating and I don't think I want to marry or raise kids with her, since she still wants to go out until the bars close on the weekends at our age. Meanwhile I have no interest and want to transition into dad mode now, we just aren't lined up at all sadly.
>32
>still live with my parents (extremely high cost of living area) and pay them a lot of money in rent
>still work pathetic job
>still a friendless kissless virgin socially avoidant autistic loser
not like it would even matter if i moved out. i lived on my own while i got a worthless college degree and it did nothing to improve my life. so why bother moving out and paying rent to a landlord, i just pay it to my parents to cover my expenses and their mortgage
theres literally no reason whatsoever for me to be alive and i spend all my waking hours thinking about suicide but im too afraid to even do that. having my own place or buying a house is a completely ridiculous concept for me.
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general-ai-is-publicly-known/
You would have to be a moron to not see the progress of AI to its end. Imagine killing yourself and then 2 weeks later it becomes sentient and cures all disease.
Couldnt be me
Mission Hill! I know it’s not good, but it was so good!
Its shit