July 2009 - Gen Y Life

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Generation Y Life - July 2009

Face it- you're never going ot own your own home

July 19th 2009 23:51

Thanks to the greedy schmucks that lent money to people who couldn’t afford to pay it back, and to our economies depending on each other, first time home buyers (a fair few of which a gen Yers) can't buy their own home.

At the moment, the price of the average first home is about $300,000. This is 8 to 10 times bigger than the average wage, while the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who got us into this mess only had to pay about 2 to 3 times the average wage to get their first roof over their heads. We on the other hand, can't afford to move out on our won, so we're pooling together with friends. Mortgage lender MyRates.com.au states " the number of co-ownership mortgage enquiries has trebled over the last six months". Whether it’s with siblings or friends, groups of would-be first home buyers are jointly buying properties because right now they simply can't afford to buy a place individually.

Now, while being co-home owners can make partial home ownership a reality, what comes next? I mean, do you all still plan to be living together in your 30's or 40's? What if someone wants to start a family- you surely can't all live under the same roof, but how can you move out when you have more mouths to feed?

And if you do decide to go your own separate ways, who gets the hose and for how much?

More facts and figures about co-homeowner ship can be found here.

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Hair dye is bad for your health

July 15th 2009 23:55

Allergic reactions to hair dye have risen by 800% in the past 30 year- no, I'm not making that up. Source. As more and more (young) people dye their hair to be scene, health services are becoming increasingly burdened by puffy faced, swollen eyed victims of hair dye, some of which require hospital admission.

A recent study in Japan found 13% of teen girls and 6% of women suffer form these allergic reactions, which a London survey found 7.1% of people who visit a dermatologist do so due to hair colouring misadventures. Read about it here.

The main reason for these reactions is the chemical para-phenylenediamine (PPD), which is found in about 2 out of three hair dye products. At one point PPD products were banned in Germany, France and Sweden, but current EU legislation permits PPD products to be sold, providing the PPD does not make up more than 6% of the product. The reason this chemical and its toxic friends are still being used that that there is no other alternative that is as effective when it comes to creating dye that lasts.

If you're changing your hair colour DIY, and you start to experience itching, burning or any other sensation which you think might signify an allergic reaction ehow.com has these 5 steps for treating them. Act fast and you might not need to get down to a clinic.

Happy hair dying!

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Apparently, Gen Y is rebelling against technology

July 13th 2009 22:19

So I was checking out the news headlines when I cam across this startling claim; Gen Y spending less time online: study. pfft, as if, I thought, but the study finds that we are indeed spending less time online and goes on to claim we're beginning to think negatively of the internet.

The Australian survey was carried out on 1600 people aged between 16 and 30 and finds that we're spending 30 minutes less online per week than last year while we increasingly prefer to stay home instead of going to 'noisy clubs'. WTF? What hermits did you survey to come up with those findings? I mean okay, yes, I'm not a huge fan of having to shout over the rest of the club to talk to my friends when we've gone to dinner somewhere., but it's not the end of the world. We're generation we like It Loud, so these findings are surprising to me. And I do hope that comment about noisy clubs wasn't referring to nightclubs, I mean, about 90% of the fun comes from the fact that the music is so loud you can feel the bass thump.

Moving on, it's also claimed that we "want more connections with their friends that aren't digital, that are tangible" and that we're starting to question the authenticity of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter". Honestly? I think not. Twitter is the new black right now, everyone's flocked to it like bugs to those bug zapper things. I personally find these findings a little hard to believe, but maybe that's got something to do with the large margin of error that comes form having such a small sample size to represent such a large population.

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Icelandic attitutes towards police

July 13th 2009 08:55

This entry is a little bit of a curve ball. We don't hear much about Iceland, so I've decided to update you on what the young people if this Nordic country think of police-run workshops and seminars on issues such as drugs and traffic regulations. The findings come from this report. This entry also wraps up with stats of what eh general attitude towards police is. Enjoy.

Firstly, 87% of the participant’s ages between 18 and 20 had, at some point, received education from the police. Most of the remaining 13% which did not receive this education stated it wasn't available to them

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Knife violence is now a policing piority

July 11th 2009 01:20

The UK has the highest rate of knife violence, with one article claiming knives are responsible 6 deaths a week. While other nations have not yet reached such high incidents of knife violence, there can be no denying that knife violence is on the rise.

In Australia, the Premier of the state of South Australia has proposed amendments to existing laws to stamp out knife violence. The full article can be read here, but the proposed changes include

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The Boys From Baghdad High

July 10th 2009 11:47

Baghdad's been in the news constantly since the US led invasion of Iraq some 5 years ago. We’ve all seen the tanks rolling through the streets and heard news story after news story of yet another deadly explosion in the country. Surprise death and ever-looming violence have become to Iraq what shrimps on the Barbie and 'G'day mate' are to Australia. Despite this extreme contrast in stereotypes, a documentary by the BBC shows that the youth of Baghdad, Iraq's capital, are not so different form youth the world over. The documentary The Boys from Baghdad High follows 4 teenage boys in their final year of high school trying to pass their exams and deal with the unsafety that has come to characterise Iraq.

A snippet of the documentary can be viewed here
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Stats on teen net usage (U.S. and Aus)

July 8th 2009 01:44

I'm back for the winter with new resolve to keep an eye on my pears like the KGB kept on Russian citizens, and I'm beginning this new mission by finding out who goes online, how often and what they go online for.

WE begin with U.S figures, for which the prime source for my information is this paper.
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