The Misguided Freakout About Basement-Dwelling Millennials

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Originally Posted by tshile

The Misguided Freakout About Basement-Dwelling Millennials - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic

Quite a different story than the oft-cited claim that "Today's kids" are overly lazy or somehow significantly less motivated, more spoiled, etc than kids from the "Good 'ol days"

In fact... there are less people aged 18-31 living at home while not attending college these days than there were in the '80s. Not significantly less, but less... nonetheless.

Have to disagree with you here as the article says they were in a college dorm ,so they are not living at home , who is paying for that college dorm and where did those kids go to at break time or summer vacation , do you think the parents rent out the rooms when they graduate high school ?Also I notice not a lot of info in the article about the kids and after college graduation , who are they living off , with till the first fulltime grown up job come around...Mom and Dad .Sorry but the writer of the article is way off base here .
Didn't address the problem of the Thirty something's moving home because of down sizing or lay offs and bringing the family with them , I'll agree maybe the numbers aren't right on the button but they are pretty damn close .