I'm 29.
I'll give some generational perspective.
Majority don't use IG to gather or organize things. There will be some niche stuff but overall no.
Most of us left facebook and are on IG purely to show 'what we are doing' or see what others are doing, without all the chatter,news and BS of Facebook. Still use forums alot. I have a build thread, theres another guy who's 19 that just started a build thread in IDI.
Most of us got crushed by the greed of monetizing the education system starting in the late 80s early 90s. Saying, "you need to go to college if you want to amount to anything" and then raising tuition costs sky high. The school I went to cost $6,000 a year in 1996 and today cost $70,000 a year. We all know wages did not incur that inflation.
I have friends with masters degrees in engineering which cannot get a job in the field, are not paying the loan debt because of no money, and are landscaping and doing part time jobs to survive.
That said, many of us and even the ones who do have good jobs are working alot of overtime or second jobs to catch up. Going on week long expeditions is not realistic or not possible. Also, delayed or not having kids is more normal and it seems like kids were what drove some of your interests in going to the rally from previous posts.
Things we do like:
-Long weekend trips or events
-Day events (we go to tractor pulls, demolition derby, dyno days, tough truck, etc almost every weekend spring-fall) Me and two buddies were watching Wes's dyno thread updates because if it was still on were going to get plane tickets and come from PA to TX for the day.
- Working days. Most nice weekends there can be up to 8 of my buddies hanging out in garages working on multiple vehicles at a time. I would also go anywhere within driving distance in the Northeast for working days with members to help get their projects done. I would personally like to see more of this. As an idea for 'range' Subway is an hour or a bit more from me and I consider that close. Distance isn't a problem.
Finally,
Either the websites code updated a couple weeks ago or the Tapatalk code updated because i can no longer see pictures and there was no vote option. Tapatalk has also been trying to squeeze more and more money out of people by pushing more features to premium over the last 2 years.
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