Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.
Fuck we don't even have wealth...
Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930's era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:
Rotting fiberglass insulation
ungrounded outlets
no dishwasher
a clothesline instead of a dryer
non-catastrophic plumbing issues
unfinished drywall on the second floor
windows with busted opening mechanisms
gutters with holes rusted through them
a shitty-ass furnace that cost me $600/mo to heat my house to 60F last year
All for the low-low price of "i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment"
But now that I'm a homeowner, I'm considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don't see myself swinging R anytime soon.
I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I'm not sure I've ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.
In my part of Canada without a dryer you'd have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I'd be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.
Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot
They are also, in the scheme of things, a very cheap and easy to install appliance (typically directly next to or on top the washer).
Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.
Fuck we don't even have wealth...
Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930's era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:
All for the low-low price of "i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment"
But now that I'm a homeowner, I'm considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don't see myself swinging R anytime soon.
I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I'm not sure I've ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.
In my part of Canada without a dryer you'd have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I'd be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.
Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot
They are also, in the scheme of things, a very cheap and easy to install appliance (typically directly next to or on top the washer).
Hey! Niiice!
So then wealth, not age, makes you conservative.