Uh, what? Most millennials own homes? This is news to me.

fuck reddit and fuck landlords

Don’t derive your standards from discord servers.

It is true that breaking into a vacant house, changing the locks, then forging a paper trail and sweet-talking the neighbors to testify I’ve been living there for decades is a skill I could stand to cultivate, guess it’s time to git gud

Freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all. From the Internationale.

most millennials own homes

yeah i don’t need to look that up to know its bullshit. you cant base everything on anecdotal evidence and its generally frowned on but when not ONE millennial i know in real life owns a home and only know of one person out of probably dozens who does own a home then i can safely say thats not true. also the one person i know of who owns a home- his dad was in a famous 80s metal band. so he just grew up rich and had a life handed to him and he does not count lol

In my experience, when used unironically: “skill issue” is a psychological projection phrase used by people who don’t want to put any effort into helping others with [insert thing they’re calling a skill issue].

The real skill issue, in other words, is that they suck at being helpful to others with XYZ issue. But rather than letting that exist in their psyche as part of them and hurting their ego, they put it onto the other person as being that other person’s fault.

For context, I’ve encountered this phrase before in the most mundane of situations like “person wanting help with how to use a product and having complaints about how the product works.” Situations where those who help are often volunteers and face 0 obligation or moralizing to urge them to help. And still you get the sort of people who will go out of their way to call it a skill issue rather than, you know, just not saying anything if they don’t want to help.

I was told today on a server

the first issue is believing a wanker in a server (discord i have to assume)

not owning home with a basement is a skill issue

told by someone who probably lives in a place rented by their parents

most millennials own homes

you should remind them that renting a house is not the same as owning it

I think I am a millenial and while I definitely know people who do own homes (I am trying to get one myself soon admittedly) I don’t think they are even close to the majority. Every one of those lives in a more rural or semi-rural area. If you live in a major city, especially in the western world, good luck.

The basement part is even weirder. Some areas you just can’t practically have basements. Whether due to the building codes of that area, the risk of flooding, or just culturally it not being a thing.

I am a millenial and I know exactly 1 couple who own their own home, and they required help from their relatively wealthy parents, plus they themselves went into massive, massive debt to get it. They both had very well paid jobs when they bought the house, like top 30% of income in the country. And they regret how much they’ve spent on the house, it’s completely ruined their finances for the rest of their lives.

As for the rest of my millennial friends, none of us could ever imagine owning a house, with a few of my friends being couchsurfers because their jobs don’t pay enough to even afford rent.

And we don’t even have basements in houses in Australia.

Is that person using global statistics? Because if so then China is tipping the scales significantly in favour of “most” millennials owning homes. If they’re talking about the west then the answer is a big fat NO.

Also the basement thing, I’m almost positive it’s both a geographic and price thing. Depending on where you live basements may or may not be needed, but in an area where basements are commonplace and a house doesn’t have one it’s most likely due to price (like mobile homes). In my area almost every home (including townhouses) have basements, the only ones that don’t are apartments and mobile homes.