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re: How can the average person afford to live?
Posted on 9/2/23 at 1:33 pm to Richleau
Posted on 9/2/23 at 1:33 pm to Richleau
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Found the boomer. How much was a house then you old piece of shite?
A house when? Benito made it in the last ten years.
When I got started my wife and I could not afford a decent house. But as a consequence of me having worked my arse off, I knew how to do some crafts. So we bought a house that was about 60% finished, because the contractor had gone out of business. Times were tough because we were in the throes of the ‘80’s oil bust. We finished it ourselves.
We were what you would call poor, although we thought we were well off. We went ten years after that with zero vacations. We drove old second hand cars, and we could only afford going out to eat about once per month. But we kept our heads down, working and raising kids. Eventually we got enough of a financial cushion, and enough work experience, and we started a business.
Do you have any more gotchas about how easy it used to be? It was easy, but not because the tasks were easier; it was because the people were tougher.
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Posted on 9/2/23 at 1:38 pm to Penrod
quote:Nailed it.
We were what you would call poor, although we thought we were well off. We went ten years after that with zero vacations. We drove old second hand cars, and we could only afford going out to eat about once per month. But we kept our heads down, working and raising kids. Eventually we got enough of a financial cushion, and enough work experience, and we started a business.
Do you have any more gotchas about how easy it used to be? It was easy, but not because the tasks were easier; it was because the people were tougher.
Bought my first house when both wife and I were making less than $35k a year, just like you said, by working hard, saving and sacrificing vacations, etc to make it happen.
Posted on 9/2/23 at 3:30 pm to Penrod
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It was easy, but not because the tasks were easier; it was because the people were tougher.
No it’s because everything was cheaper. Average home price is 30x higher than back then, but wages are only 5x higher.
Posted on 9/3/23 at 7:59 pm to Penrod
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We went ten years after that with zero vacations. We drove old second hand cars, and we could only afford going out to eat about once per month.
That sounds terrible. You should have worked harder earlier in life so you could have had a more lucrative career from the start.
Posted on 9/6/23 at 8:44 pm to Penrod
quote:Exactly.
Do you have any more gotchas about how easy it used to be? It was easy, but not because the tasks were easier; it was because the people were tougher.
That whiny little bitch thinks people working the counter at McDonalds years ago were buying houses in the burbs.
It’s always been tough to make it to the middle class and above. No one I know in the middle class has an entry level menial job. They all have skills that make them valuable to their employers or they own their own businesses.
Sounds like he’s a Democrat with no skills and is pissed that he can’t make middle class money.
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