Look at this guy flexing being able to buy a home in his late 30s.
Edit: Thanks for the awards. To those who stated they are millennials who purchased a home I have nothing but respect for you. You bring those who dream to own some hope. Seeing the amount of redditors who truly believe owning a home anytime in the near future is unrealistic is plain sad. Owning a home is the American dream and something needs to change in this country to make that dream more of a reality to not just millennials but everyone.
The only way I'll ever end up owning a house is through inheritance...
Edit because it seems some people don't understand this: there's no point moving to somewhere where the house prices are dirt cheap. They're that cheap for a reason, and I'm not talking about some stupid reason like aesthetics. Those cheap houses everyone keeps talking about are in the middle of nowhere. Jobs, good schools, public transportation, well equipped hospitals and so on are mostly in urban and suburban ares, not in the rural areas. What good is moving to a cheap rural area when your job is away in the city and the public transport is so shit that you can't commute?
This. I got extremely lucky I was able to afford a buy townhouse at 25, and my mortgage+insurance+tax excroe was less than rent anywhere for even close to the amount of space I had. But the tradeoff was my town (of like 6000 people at the time) was surrounded by farmland. Fortunately it bordered a city of ~100k on one side, a mostly-senior area on the other side, and is 5 mins from a major highway on ram so coulda been worse.
Lemme tell ya though it was FUN living somewhere where everything closed by 10p when I worked nights for the first 3 years, unless I wanted to drive 30+ mins to hang out at night in a city I didn't feel safe in at night 🙃 there were 2 options on uber eats/doordash. Maybe 3 more places delivered if you called. 15-20 mins to get to any sizeable store for grocery shopping.
5 years later, it's built up far more and we've passed 10k population - and my townhouse value has risen almost 50k 😬 if you can afford a place in buttfuck nowhere that's being developed, it's 100% worth it to deal with some isolation for a few years.
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u/MisterOminous Mar 12 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
Look at this guy flexing being able to buy a home in his late 30s.
Edit: Thanks for the awards. To those who stated they are millennials who purchased a home I have nothing but respect for you. You bring those who dream to own some hope. Seeing the amount of redditors who truly believe owning a home anytime in the near future is unrealistic is plain sad. Owning a home is the American dream and something needs to change in this country to make that dream more of a reality to not just millennials but everyone.