I’m Gen-X and we usually get dumped in with the Boomers here in the US. However, ours was the first generation to get fucked. Like all those golden pensions of yesteryear dried up and disappeared as soon as we began entering the job force. So those a little older than us are kickin’ back enjoying 70% of their retirement pay or whatever, often with health insurance (as opposed to Medicare), and we’re stuck with shitty 401Ks that yield not only less assets but less secured assets because you can easily go through your entire benefits before you die, as opposed to the pension system. And, of course, our retirement today doesn’t typically come with any auxiliary benefits such as healthcare. Plus most of us are simultaneously assisting our elderly surviving parents and adult children simultaneously!
Plus most of us are assisting our elderly surviving parents
I keep seeing this with people I know, including my spouse and myself. We have spent our entire marriage so far taking care of old family members. Why us? Because my wife is literally the only competent person anyone in her family knows. And she’s very caring and compassionate.
Or she was. None of the elderly people we have supported have been nice or easy to care for. My wife got tired of feeling used. We have decided that we are no longer an unpaid skilled nursing service and therefore we are the most heartless people to have ever existed. It has not been popular but there aren’t yet laws demanding we take care of them.
My family, on the other hand, is more organized and generally heathier. But i have still explained to my parents that they had better have a plan, because we aren’t it.
And I wonder, how many other genx and millenials have made this same decision? How many will sleep on the Boomer-only bench?
The point is to create a rule that they can selectively enforce.
What if they’re a homeless boomer? An unmovable object means an irresistible force.
At least add pregnant women so you’re not a complete dick.
But honestly, fuck this noise.
This is so ridiculous I hope it’s fake.
It’s America… I’m sure it’s not only real but enforceable with jail time.
In my town benches are the recreational place for teenagers. What are teens/young people supposed to do?
Spend their parents money or get fucked
What about the younger handicap’s? Are they all screwed because of those stinking Boomers? One day in the distant future we’ll need to do something about those Boomers. /s
Kids don’t play outside anymore. Also Why are there kids outside!!!
Looks like a private sign posted on private property. Can be ignored.
Some of Gen X is elderly now, too.
Are you saying only boomers can be disabled?
They’re saying it’s absurd to try to stop anyone from using a public bench
The anti-property tax propaganda is from the real estate hoarding corporate owners. As usual, these anti-tax wingnuts latch on to “why should I pay property tax (insert selfish reason here)” when the real reason is the real estate hoarding companies don’t want to pay property taxes on all the properties they’ve hoarded and are likely sitting empty. The same properties they used to price people out of homebuying, the same ones they used to increase rent super high because you can’t afford a home and will own nothing.
And of course anti-tax wingnuts don’t care that property taxes pay for schools, police, fire services,etc. (ain’t got no kids so why should I pay for school? My house has never burned down. Who needs cops when I got a Smith and Wesson?) and those things will still have to be paid for via some kind of tax, so in the end they still pay but the absentee owners get a huge tax break.
Surely, that sign is more expensive than any sort of additional maintenance cost from people using your bench…?
I doubt this is about bench maintenance and more about giving and excuse to chase homeless people and kids away from the area. In other places they just use bench designs that are uncomfortable or make it impossible to lay down.
It also mentions citizens so presumably they can chase away anyone who doesn’t look like a citizen
Ah, well that’s just fucking lovely. So, presumably they’re legally required to put a bench there, but they would also rather not have anyone actually exist there…
Where I live they also have housing exclusive to 55+ so it’s much cheaper since there’s a smaller market for them.
Ruins the housing economy and then holds some that’s only available for themselves for cheap while they downsize for a massive nestegg.
Is it a problem that the 55+ housing lowers prices of other housing in the area, or that seniors are selling their old homes and actually keeping the money from the sale?
In the area I live in there’s a lot of places 55+ so it limits the amount of housing in the city available to working class people and those trying to raise families, increasing their housing prices. The community has a lot of old folks.
Unless you live in a really unusual area, 55+ housing doesn’t really have much of an affect on area housing prices. It sells for less so other things being equal so developers have less of an incentive to build it over regular housing. People also sell their old homes and move into 55+ housing, making homes more suitable for families available.
Housing prices in general went insane during COVID and (at least in my area) the prices have not come down. Could the prices you’re seeing on standard housing still be due to the COVID run up?
It is generally cheaper where I live because towns have to build affordable housing and it is considered more acceptable to have poor elderly people than poor people with children.
it should be more acceptable to be poor and childless than to drag someone into thw world without a way to support them.
The 55+ areas where I live are generally little rancher communities or apartments, some are low income type apartments but many are also luxury type apartments.
I could understand if the apartments or ranchers were built with accessibility in mind like shower bars and taller toilets, etc.
But mostly it’s just because they don’t like screaming children playing in the neighbourhood.
You can tell that you live in a society that’s about to totally collapse when you see signs like this.
