{"id":2708,"date":"2015-08-20T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/flightless-birds-the-clipped-wing-generation\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:05:16","slug":"flightless-birds-the-clipped-wing-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/flightless-birds-the-clipped-wing-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Flightless Birds: The Clipped-Wing Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xap1\/t1.0-9\/10380890_10154511796980564_383777939099409283_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" align=\"none\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; 0 0 1 20 116 Property Data MEdia LLP 1 1 135 14.0 96 &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]&gt; \/* Style Definitions *\/table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:\"\";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}&lt;![endif]--><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"1\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Image: sheeprus: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pliurY<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\">\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">You, the reader, \u00a0you&#8217;re sat right now or standing, maybe even lying down (which is preferable) and you&#8217;re reading my words. I am governing the thoughts in your head for the 10 or so minutes it&#8217;ll take for you to read this through. There&#8217;s some power in that, I guess. Some objectivity too, the cold distance required to judge a topic without sentiment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nIn this piece, you&#8217;ll find neither.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">My name is Joe Castle. I am 23 years old and I still live at <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"homes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01rtvp;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing_estate\" >home<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Kind of undercut myself a little, right? Definitely not objective any more and we can forget all about power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">My station in life can be described as both pathetic and juvenile but I&#8217;m not unhappy about that. I&#8217;m a writer, actively seeking a worthy (lucrative) application of whatever talent I may have (if you&#8217;re still here, I must be doing something right). It&#8217;s a song you&#8217;ve heard before, the one about the starving artist, though I&#8217;m nowhere near as proud as my contemporaries who live in squalor in the name of art. Mine is more a dance remix, where I get three squares and ironed shirts in the name of art. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">My situation is voluntary. I&#8217;m doing what I love, what I feel sure I can be good at (while actively seeking employment and currently working a job placement in social media) all it costs is some freedom and occasionally some self-respect &#8211; living with mum and dad does somewhat put a dampener on your social\/love life. It has not been a choice for everyone though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Of my university classmates, all of whom are employed, the only ones to have managed to leave the nest did so by moving in with their significant others. The ones who didn&#8217;t, who are working 9 to 5 and who still live under foot are just some of the 1.9 million 20-34 year-olds whose wage is so far from liveable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/england.shelter.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0007\/906820\/2014_07_The_Clipped_Wing_Generation_FINAL.pdf\">survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/opi\/\">YouGov<\/a> and published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelter.org.uk\/\">Shelter<\/a> in July 2014 found that of the 2.62 million adults aged 20-34 who lived at home, 75% were employed, 17% were unemployed (a far more select club) and 8% were students (I notice there wasn&#8217;t a following your dreams category but I guess that&#8217;s no excuse). Of the total number of working 20-34 year olds, 25% live at home. That&#8217;s 1 in 5 young people who have yet to get themselves on the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"House\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jm5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House\" >housing<\/a> <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Market (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/market-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/market_economics;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Market_(economics)\" >market<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; 0 0 1 397 2269 Property Data MEdia LLP 18 5 2661 14.0 96 &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]&gt; \/* Style Definitions *\/table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:\"\";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}&lt;![endif]--><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Prose\"><span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Monthly salaries are good and I know there&#8217;s a sleepy admin job waiting, in a quiet corner of some beige labyrinth of cubicles, for me to lose my resolve. But in this current climate, I wonder if it&#8217;ll make any difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Image: sheeprus: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pliurY You, the reader, \u00a0you&#8217;re sat right now or standing, maybe even lying down (which is preferable) and you&#8217;re reading my words. 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