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How many 18 year olds graduate from high school and immediately get jobs which allow them to move out on their own? Even though 30% of high school grads don’t g

How many 18 year olds graduate from high school and immediately get jobs which allow them to move out on their own? Even though 30% of high school grads don’t go to college, I imagine very few of those move out of their parents house until at least a few years later.

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WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
I have 5 18-29 year olds and cannot envision a scenario where anyone in my region could wholly support themselves, using nothing but their k-12 education (eg: no family connections). Worse is that the above is largely true for most students wrapping up trade schools and 2-4yr degrees. I hope that people working on 8+ year degrees have the insider connections to help them find gainful work - but IDK how realistic that is. This isn't some recent covid thing; this goes back to at least the 2008 crash.
jeffbee 6y ago
That's new, though. It used to be that kids got out of high school and moved into their own houses right away. Only about half of the people from my high school class went to college. The other half went out and got jobs as oil field welders or whatever and had bought houses by the age of 20. I think it's a real problem for our future that there are now lots of adults who have never lived to see a functioning housing market with plentiful supply. Everyone under 30 thinks its normal that you have to save your salary for 25 years to afford a down payment on a home. It isn't.
- ramshorns 6y ago
  That functioning housing market might have been an anomaly, only lasting a generation or two. Through history it may have been much more common for most people to never be able to afford to own a home. Anyway, growth is unsustainable: if housing keeps being a good investment for long enough, sooner or later it becomes unaffordable. I agree it's a real problem, and we may have to get creative looking for solutions.
  - biql 6y ago
    A possible direction would be smaller apartments in tall buildings. Quicker to build than a house and more affordable. You don’t have a lot of space in them, but when it’s located in a big city, you can spend the time outside enjoying hobbies and entertainments (the pandemic won’t last forever anyways).
  - shuckles 6y ago
    The cost of housing is only closely coupled to the cost of land to the extent you haven’t the technology to fit more units on the same lot. The value of land should continue increasing indefinitely as it’s a function of local amenity. Who benefits from the value of land is a deep question.
    - Talanes 6y ago
      Or the political capital to get the zoning change approved to build more lots.
    - lotsofpulp 6y ago
      > The value of land should continue increasing indefinitely as it’s a function of local amenity. Decrease in buying population and/or decrease in incomes of the buying population would result in lower prices.
      - shuckles 6y ago
        High local incomes are an amenity included in the price of land.
  - EGreg 6y ago
    Throughout history, hardly anyone owned the kind of home we got used to in the suburbs. Even when the world population was under 1 billion, most people were itinerant and got housing for being hired help, or were some kind of serfs with a tiny plot. Communal housing was the norm in much of the world, including USSR, and it’s only recently that China built housing for everyone to move into the cities.
- watwut 6y ago
  Ability to buy house at 20 as a norm is the historical/cultural outlier. And even at that period it was not something every socioeconomic group would be able to get nor something possible everywhere.
  - AtlasBarfed 6y ago
    You mean it was progress? Probably due to lots of government funding, but Reaganomics has finally righted things back to feudalism. Success!
- sho_hn 6y ago
  I wouldn't have wanted to buy a house at 20 - the thought of getting tied down with property at such a young age seems rather alarming. Now at 35 I can't imagine it more readily, even if not quite yet. But even at 30 I chose to go abroad and spend four years in a different country, and wouldn't want to miss that experience.
- AtlasBarfed 6y ago
  That died with the middle class
- nsgi 6y ago
  It probably helped that people settled down with partners at a younger age back then. How many of those 18 year olds were buying houses on their own?
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    You think it was easier because they were also supporting their knocked-up high school girlfriends? Doesn't seem likely.
- dzhiurgis 6y ago
  Used go be and bow there ain’t enough of housing where 2/3rds of it is u occupied because some think it’s not normal to live with your parents... Of course we can build more houses, but at what cost to environment...

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WarOnPrivacy 6y ago

I have 5 18-29 year olds and cannot envision a scenario where anyone in my region could wholly support themselves, using nothing but their k-12 education (eg: no family connections). Worse is that the above is largely true for most students wrapping up trade schools and 2-4yr degrees. I hope that people working on 8+ year degrees have the insider connections to help them find gainful work - but IDK how realistic that is. This isn't some recent covid thing; this goes back to at least the 2008 crash.

jeffbee 6y ago

That's new, though. It used to be that kids got out of high school and moved into their own houses right away. Only about half of the people from my high school class went to college. The other half went out and got jobs as oil field welders or whatever and had bought houses by the age of 20. I think it's a real problem for our future that there are now lots of adults who have never lived to see a functioning housing market with plentiful supply. Everyone under 30 thinks its normal that you have to save your salary for 25 years to afford a down payment on a home. It isn't.

ramshorns 6y ago
That functioning housing market might have been an anomaly, only lasting a generation or two. Through history it may have been much more common for most people to never be able to afford to own a home. Anyway, growth is unsustainable: if housing keeps being a good investment for long enough, sooner or later it becomes unaffordable. I agree it's a real problem, and we may have to get creative looking for solutions.
- biql 6y ago
  A possible direction would be smaller apartments in tall buildings. Quicker to build than a house and more affordable. You don’t have a lot of space in them, but when it’s located in a big city, you can spend the time outside enjoying hobbies and entertainments (the pandemic won’t last forever anyways).
- shuckles 6y ago
  The cost of housing is only closely coupled to the cost of land to the extent you haven’t the technology to fit more units on the same lot. The value of land should continue increasing indefinitely as it’s a function of local amenity. Who benefits from the value of land is a deep question.
  - Talanes 6y ago
    Or the political capital to get the zoning change approved to build more lots.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    > The value of land should continue increasing indefinitely as it’s a function of local amenity. Decrease in buying population and/or decrease in incomes of the buying population would result in lower prices.
    - shuckles 6y ago
      High local incomes are an amenity included in the price of land.
- EGreg 6y ago
  Throughout history, hardly anyone owned the kind of home we got used to in the suburbs. Even when the world population was under 1 billion, most people were itinerant and got housing for being hired help, or were some kind of serfs with a tiny plot. Communal housing was the norm in much of the world, including USSR, and it’s only recently that China built housing for everyone to move into the cities.
watwut 6y ago
Ability to buy house at 20 as a norm is the historical/cultural outlier. And even at that period it was not something every socioeconomic group would be able to get nor something possible everywhere.
- AtlasBarfed 6y ago
  You mean it was progress? Probably due to lots of government funding, but Reaganomics has finally righted things back to feudalism. Success!
sho_hn 6y ago
I wouldn't have wanted to buy a house at 20 - the thought of getting tied down with property at such a young age seems rather alarming. Now at 35 I can't imagine it more readily, even if not quite yet. But even at 30 I chose to go abroad and spend four years in a different country, and wouldn't want to miss that experience.
AtlasBarfed 6y ago
That died with the middle class
nsgi 6y ago
It probably helped that people settled down with partners at a younger age back then. How many of those 18 year olds were buying houses on their own?
- jeffbee 6y ago
  You think it was easier because they were also supporting their knocked-up high school girlfriends? Doesn't seem likely.
dzhiurgis 6y ago
Used go be and bow there ain’t enough of housing where 2/3rds of it is u occupied because some think it’s not normal to live with your parents... Of course we can build more houses, but at what cost to environment...