“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.
You pay more per hour for a movie as minimum wage? Parking? Junk food?
Burn it all down.
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.
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.
“Interest rates mostly hurt people who have big loans” is news now?
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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Young people are continuing to bear the brunt of rising interest rates and rental pressures, while older Australians are splashing out on cruises and dining out, new spending data indicates.
Its latest quarterly report found that after spending on housing costs is stripped away, people under 30 years old are even cutting back on essentials such as food, fuel and insurance.
He says this trend reversed and a “tipping point” emerged in mid-2022 as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) started hiking interest rates to tackle rising prices (inflation).
Independent economist Nicki Hutley tells ABC News that the drop in spending by this age group “must be the rental effect” because not many Australians this young have yet bought their own homes.
This divide between generational spending and cutbacks has been leading to concerns that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s macroeconomic policy is unfairly punishing younger people.
It is also more likely you’re feeling financially stressed right now if you’re in an eastern state city, such as Sydney or Melbourne, where rents are still rising after international migration hit a record high and net outflows to regional areas slowed post-COVID.
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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.
