Editor:
Re: If young people want to buy a Burnaby house, don’t spend so frivolously, NOW Letters
I read the boomer’s letter about all their “sacrifices” 40 years ago to buy a house in Burnaby and I don’t understand the point of you even printing it.
People who are about 40 years old and younger are struggling in a ridiculous housing market and this person decided to write the newspaper complaining that young people should be upset about this.
Since this person decided to lecture us, I’m going to lecture back. First of all, you older folks, from boomers to Gen X, benefited from rock-bottom housing prices. Yes, your wages were lower, but study after study has proven that the disparity between wages and house prices has a big gap than any time in our history.
Yes, your interest rates were much higher, but do the math, the gap is far worse than it is today.
This isn’t about “sacrifices” because, believe me, young people today have to sacrifice a lot just to afford crappy rental housing. High rents for garbage homes while so many companies offer low wages with part-time hours.
So many young people are still living at home while pushing 30 because housing costs are so high.
And, on top of that, young people feel hopeless about the future because of the climate crisis that was caused by you older folks and your polluting ways.
Just stop it.
Connor Adams, Burnaby
Editor's note: A few readers have asked what this writer asks about why we printed the original letter to the editor. We print letters from many points of view and just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean we shouldn't print if it follows our standards as far as content.
