“Young people are finding cinemas as a way to potentially find a cheap form of entertainment. A cheap way to take the family out," Mr Tubman says.
And he’s lost all credibility. Nothing about the cinemas is a cheap time out.
I live in a third would country and the cinema is really cheap here.
They are just as nice as the ones in the states, but they don’t charge a fortune for popcorn.
Additionally, you can bring your own food and drinks.
A few years ago one cinema tried to ban it and their competitor advertised that they welcome outside food. Banning outside food was dropped almost right away.
So, grab a burger king meal, some ice cream and head into the cinema.
Not sure how it is in Australia.
You can use this tool to compare: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Australia&country2=United+States
My cinema down the street costs $18.50 for an adult.
Tuesday afternoon $7 tickets at the independent cinema, a trip to IGA and a big purse means I can manage a decent $20 date for two.
But I don’t really want to sit elbow to elbow with strangers in a sticky uncomfortable seat, while kids cry, the guy in front keeps checking his phone with the screen brightness set to “solar flare”, and the Capti-view the staff gave me breaks or desyncs halfway through the movie.
The last few times I went the experience was so uncomfortable, I don’t think they could give the tickets away for free to make me go again. My best friend and I will take a laptop to the park, relax on a picnic blanket with some Bluetooth headphones and snacks and enjoy a pirated movie in relative peace and comfort. It’s a change of scenery and a cheap outting.
You pay more per hour for a movie as minimum wage? Parking? Junk food?
Burn it all down.
$8.71 for a “gallon” of milk? No way. 3 litres is $4.50 and that’s basically the same amount.
I don’t trust those sites, never know where they pull this pricing from.
formally the position is “no outside food”
In reality the ushers don’t get paid enough to give a shit
My parents keep asking my wife and I to fly out to spend time with them.
They don’t get that we are trying to save for a house. Like, I do want to fly out and visit you, but we live in different countries and once all things are considered, we will be paying a huge amount of our savings to go out.
My wife and I just got to a point where we can start to save good money each month. Our parents owned their own home by the time they were our age. It’s like we have to play this game of catchup to have some stability.
Ask them to pay for the flights. Win win.
my parents bought their first house in 1980 for roughly $25k. Its hard to find a good house in my area now for ten times that.
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Almost makes one wish they could afford a guillotine.
“Interest rates mostly hurt people who have big loans” is news now?
And people who rent, which is a majority or significant minority depending on how you define young.
Yeah, I get that there’s a real issue now, mostly driven by wage stagnation, but younger people have always had to do more being tightening than older people, at least as long as I’ve been alive. When I first got married, we had to buy the cheapest food we could while my parents and their friends were going to Hawaii, and that was in the 80s.
A big difference, however, is that houses in the 80s were 3-4 times the average income. Now that ratio is about 10x.
Younger generations always need to work harder than older people, yes, but the major difference is that working hard these days doesn’t provide the same rewards that it once did.Oh, like I started with, wage stagnation is a massive problem, especially combined with the stomach turning growth in executive compensation. Just saying, even if the degree has gotten worse, people starting out have pretty much always had to do what this headline says.
yeah but how old were you when you got married?
How old were your parents?
At my age (45), my parents had paid off their house. Me? I just managed to get the mortgage going last year. And I earn a fuckton more than they did.
When I got married the first time, I was 22 and my parents were in their late 50s. Strangely, it was getting divorced four years later that helped me out because, even though it wiped out all my savings, I ended up living very cheaply as a single person and I was making good money (late 80s now, before wage stagnation was bad). By the time I got married again in 96, with a small amount of help from my parents (and because real estate crashed around then), I was able to afford a down payment for a reasonable mortgage.
I love that generational inequality can be measured in this way. It would be great to see how different policy changes in the last 50 - 60 years correlate across generation groups.
