# Boomerang Generation

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**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boomerang-generation/14410 "2006-07-11T12:35:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![chickenball\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@chickenball\_z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chickenball_z)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boomerang-generation/14410/22 "2006-07-12T13:19:50Z")

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decline in real wages? job instability?

not sure if that’s entirely true…wages are there if you’re qualified as is job stability…

my friends and I are mostly 81’ers and most of them did move back home, but not because of those reason… more so because they’re cheap bastards/mama’s boys

> [@Minglor](#):
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> If you were born between 1981 and 1986, you are a member of the Boomerang Generation – named because you tend to move back home after college, due to a decline in real wages, outsourcing and job instability
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> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang\_Generation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_Generation)

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