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Old 09-13-2011, 03:21 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
What are you talking about? Half of them don't want to work period and are happy living with their parents and surfing the internet all day into their 20's. The baby boomers have messed a lot of thing up but Generation Y is the slacker generation. What's really contradictory to your theory is that the first thing a Gen Y does when he get's his first good job is buy a BMW before the house. At least the Baby Boomers had a little sense.
I think that's a load of bull. With todays economic conditions many are struggling to find a job and earn enough money to live on thier own.

'Boomerang kids' forced to return home as adults:

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High unemployment and changing social norms are guiding young - and not-so-young - adults to move back home, new census data shows.

"It's almost becoming a normal step," said Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco Bay area psychologist who is a co-chairman of the Council on Contemporary Families. "Children leave home and go away to college - or don't - and then move back in with the parents for a while."
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Boo...542/story.html
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