It's definitely based on where you live... Whether you get a USDA backed loan, etc... I financed my house, 15 yrs ago when rates were between 3 and 6 percent. 2200sqft 3br, 2 bath, with half finished basement on a half acre, and deeded lake access point (Lake Norman) they wanted 120K, but I talked them down to 100K. Since it's out in the country ( about 15 minutes from the city), it qualified for USDA, which means no closing costs, 30 year FIXED RATE. I pay $650 a month for my mortgage...Only downside is that it was built in 1973, but there are so many houses out here like this, just sitting...

Works both ways Though. I'm hearing over and over from groups that consider themselves victims, having similar sentiment, but shocked when the other group behaves the same way.

Failures in education and misunderstanding aren't unique to any one generation.

Think about how the right wing genz have completely abandoned gender and racial equality and are voting against green politicians.

Think about how millennials have embraced AI and get their news from corporate-controlled social media despite all the evidence for its harmful effects on democracy and critical thinking. The millennials who support the genocide in Gaza.

People aren't convinced by the fakeness of modern media and want to believe what they already believe. That's something that's affecting all the generations.

You can call me a boomer and you'd be wrong.

I feel like this is also a Gen Z thing. Millennials try so hard with everything all the time, Gen Z probably thinks that's annoying (but maybe cute how naive and stupid we are to still try?). So "Ok Boomer" it is, which makes the exact effort to deal with boomers as boomers make in dealing with everything other than themselves.

But "okay boomer" has just become a bland, flavorless retort that gets said by anyone to anyone for any reason.

It isn't an expression of frustration at an audience that rejects facts and reason, it is a pithy retort that gets thrown out to say "STFU" to someone in slightly more polite terms.

Like, the root of this isn't unfair. But as with so much internet lingo, the initial intent has been polluted by online gooners who latch on to a phrase and use it as a barb rather than to convey any particular kind of coherent message.

I just find these reductive generalisations a bit silly and divisive. As if anyone born between arbitrary years x and y is part of some sort of united collective that can reasonably critique everyone born between years v and w.

Not saying this is wrong but sometimes you need to look in the mirror as well. It's never just one thing. Also, throw away the boomer blame game and refocus on the rich 10%, who are more than just boomers now.

And then it got appropriated and misused so that anything, even perfectly reasonable statements like "you should be cleaning your butthole when you shower" by literally anybody even 27 year old men, gets a response of "okay boomer".

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That is spot on. I have just concluded that it isn't my responsibility to educate my parents. And since they don't listen anyway, I also realized that since that is the case, we have not become closer through the years; but actually the opposite. And that all because they're not willing to accept facts, because they're lazy and entitled.