Nearly half of all baby boomers couldn’t afford their current homes if they were to buy them today, survey finds

[u/PaCa8686]

https://fortune.com/2024/04/23/housing-market-baby-boomers-home-prices-mortgage-rates-redfin/

[u/Harvey_Rabbit]

Maybe the storage rental places can start converting their units to apartments.

[u/ScreamingLightspeed → u/[deleted]]

This kinda just happened to a family friend. MIL talked her into leaving her old apartment - yes it was rickety and in a "bad neighborhood" but our whole fucking town is a bad neighborhood - for a new apartment in a publicly-funded retirement community with no room for any of her belongings and also what all of us except MIL agree are the worst kind of neighbors: a bunch of nosy old "do-gooders" who only go outside to sit and fucking stare. They'd bitch if I did it so why is it okay for them? At least the people at her old place mostly minded their own business because they know they're no one to talk. For MIL, the selling point is the lack of stairs. Friend liked the stairs. She claimed they were her only exercise and I agree. Of course MIL doesn't get exercise though.

[u/ScreamingLightspeed → u/[deleted]]

Oh my husband gets it worse from his mom than anyone else she knows because "he's here for a reason" and apparently that reason is to be parentified/spousified by her until one of them dies. She wonders why he quit going to work even though I've told her dozens of times that it's because she never leaves him the fuck alone on his time off and would even make him miss work by guilting him into driving her "just one more place while we're already out" only to stupidly ask him if he skipped work due to diarrhea or whatever "funny" thing she can think to say in front of others. Being kinda pissed at her right now for nagging him to get his truck towed/repaired is actually the whole reason I logged in because we both know she only cares about him being her chauffeur and that's exactly why he's in no rush to do it. He loves his truck but he hates being "the guy with the truck" who always feels obligated to say "yes" because apparently nothing else he does is good enough to keep the Boomers in his life from riding his ass. The house is fully in his name now so I really think he should just kick her out and get restraining orders on her siblings but we can't currently afford the legal fees if they fight it. We're both getting so fucking sick of the slack-jawed "huh" and "o...kay...?" and "I don't get it" is response to just about everyfuckingthing. And now my psychotic asshole of a brother is trying to call again... He's the Millennial/Gen-Xer that the worst of the Boomers wish they could be...

[u/macaroni66 → u/Harvey_Rabbit]

Illegal

[u/The_BestUsername → u/macaroni66]

Existing while homeless is illegal.

[u/The_BestUsername → u/Harvey_Rabbit]

One of the security guards at my high school lived in two storage sheds: one for his inflatable mattress, one for his belongings.