A Boring Dystopia

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Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you don't have a home now you soon won't be able to buy one for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

this thought pushed us to buy this year. Some instantly started mocking us for buying while rates are 6% - but nothing I can see on the horizon is going to halve rates in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And if they do by some stroke of luck you can refinance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah, my boyfriend and I are in our mid twenties and still not moved out of his parents' house, but we just made an offer on a house and it was accepted, so fingers crossed.

Shit is already so rough, and yet it doesn't seem like it'll get better. It's a shame, really.