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In reply to the discussion: Typical Millennial bank statement [View all]Sympthsical
(9,867 posts)It's just meant to illustrate that articles picking apart Millennial financial situations like to focus on the small, frivolous things while ignoring the giant, systemic problems.
Remember when avocado toast needed roughly 27,000 articles about it? "Oh, those Millennials and their extravagance. No wonder they can't afford things!"
Health insurance has deductibles and co-pays many people simply cannot afford. Rents are out of control in most major American cities.
As someone in the Bay Area, when I saw that $2,000 in rent, I thought, "If only . . ."
We have a tenant at the moment we charge $750/month. We're pretty equidistant from S.F. and Sacramento, so it's not exactly urban living. Thing is, he's a friend of a friend, and he was living in a car, so it was more, "Just pay that, and it's cool." And that's for a room in our house. When we looked around in local ads and things to see what going room rentals were in our area, that shit started at $1200. And again, we're not in the city. And given the room we put him in has a bathroom en suite, we know we could get more.
It's gotten silly.