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Do Your Fiscally Responsible Parents Just Not Get It?
It’s not possible to get by on mere fiscal responsibility anymore
Ever talk with your parents, or anyone else in the generations above yours, and think:
You’re just not getting it.
This never used to happen to me as much, because, as my husband points out, I’ve always had the soul of a sixty-eight year old woman (many, many years before I’ll turn sixty-eight). Mostly I get along with older people very well and always have.
But today I saw how fundamentally people of a certain age do not even have the basic framework to understand the country’s current economic picture.
I live in a very desirable area, mostly because I was born here and never really left. It’s a small city that touches a bigger one, with a large university and several large hospitals, butt on. If I drive fifteen minutes one way, I’m surrounded by farm fields and I have ready access to beautiful county and state parks. If I drive fifteen minutes the other way, I can get to restaurants and museums and those aforementioned hospitals (which are, sadly, the only amenities of my nearby big city that I use anymore).
In recent years it has become impossible for young people or families to afford even a starter home in my…
