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[LeftyMom]

Tract houses are still standard today. I don't know where the hell you live but four bedroom homes are not "standard" here, nor were they except perhaps for a few years of new construction at the height of the boom, and then only in outer suburbs.

One car per family was at one point the norm because ONLY ONE PARENT WORKED in two parent homes. And schools had bus systems that brought kids to/from somewhere in shouting distance of home FOR FREE. Neither is true anymore in many cases. Technological improvements made phones cheaper and more ubiquitous, which is great because many of us have no leisure time to be home and thus could never answer that one phone.

Working one's way through college with no debt is impossible now, not least of all because so many people are out of work that many colleges don't have enough work-study jobs for applicants, and of course college costs are THROUGH THE FUCKING ROOF. When boomers were in college state schools in California were cheap (UC/CSU) or free (community college.) Students now pay more for a semester's worth of textbooks than students then paid for a semester's tuition. And we have it easy out here in California compared to college costs in most places.

Young people today are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Good for you.

Actually, young people really don't want to live in suburbia. It's expensive. It's boring. The price of gas will fucking kill you, if the commute itself doesn't. You'd know this if you asked anybody under 35 instead of bitching about how hard boomers had it, having to hand wash the dishes and all.