a friend’s boomer parents bought their house in the mid 90s for about $82,000.
today it’s worth roughly $1.1 million.
he’s an only child.
for years he figured that house would eventually become part of his future.
then his parents sold it.
retirement, travel, and rising living costs.
he found out during a family dinner.
smiled.
said he understood.
then went home and realized over a million dollars of housing wealth was never actually his.
boomers didn’t just benefit from the housing market.
they got to cash out too.
I do not recommend watching Backrooms in a theater that’s in a mall that closes before the movie is over, just in case anyone was considering doing that.
It is ugly, but the fact that his mother made his first hero costume and that Izuku wore it and kept its design with modifications in the future makes it hard to hate it
When Mamdani got in, my landlord started doing things he was supposed to be doing for years because he knew Mamdani was with the tenants, not the landlords. For example, monthly extermination hadn't happened in the 7 years I've been in my building until literally this year.