I have often wondered about the stereotype so often promoted of Millennials still living with their parents, so I did a little bit of research on google: it turns out that a few states-California, New York, and New Jersey, with very high housing costs are seriously skewing the numbers. For instance, 46% of Millennials in New Jersey live with their parents; in North Dakota, the percentage is about 6%. My home state of Massachusetts isn’t really known as a super affordable place to live, but the percentage of Millennials here who live with their parents is around 10%-much closer to North Dakota than New Jersey. For those who are interested in learning more:
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-living-with-their-parents-states-ranked-2018-8
And there is more good news: according to this Forbes article,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2018/05/10/young-adults-live-with-mom/#5b96141a6005
of the Millennials who are still living with their parents, only about 11% of them are unemployed. It turns out that the vast, vast majority of Millennials are in fact not just hanging around in Mom’s basement playing video games: it is high time that we stop disparaging Millennials with that stereotype.
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None of us on this post are worried about what Millennials are doing with their free time, when their not filling coffee orders, while studying feminist basket-weaving because everybody needs a college degree. I’m worried about how coastal Millies and Millettes are going to spend my money, and/or when they’re going to tell me I’ve “suffered enough” through governmentally-rationed home-based services (because their parents spared them adversity). Not to mention having a spirituality that’s an eighth of an inch deep. Granted, ‘flyover country” has been behind – but they are catching up…We may be whistling, but we’re doing it past the graveyard. Conservative pessimism in memory of Sir Roger Scruton….
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As a conservative, the truth is my main concern. The image being promoted in the media of millennials is. not. true. As conservatives who are committed to the truth, we should be pointing that out.
Nanda, I totally understand the problem you have with coastal elites: I don’t like them either, but the vast majority of millennials are not coastal elites.
As far as I know, conservative pessimism has never won an election, but conservative optimism has worked wonders. I have never heard of Sir Roger Scruton; I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that he never won an election and probably never even tried, but he wrote a lot of dismal stuff which most people didn’t want to read which is why very few people know who he is. I could very well be wrong, but whoever he is, he was nowhere near as successful at promoting conservatism as Reagan was, or as Trump is. LOL, I love you so much Nanda, but you have to stop taking these intellectuals so seriously. 🙂 I embrace optimism because I have seen it work with my own eyes: I reject pessimism because I have never seen it work.
I am off to find out who Sir Roger Scruton is 🙂
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For those who would like to know more about Sir Roger Scruton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton
I had him mostly pegged: he was a prolific writer, but never ran for anything in his life, and it seems pretty clear to me that he had no idea how to win an election. He did help to foster academic communities behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, and he bravely went behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, and was awarded medals for this by The Czech Republic. Good on him: he did a great thing, but even so, I will take my political cues from Reagan and Trump. 🙂
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