re: The math for buying a home no longer works, per WSJ

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I'm not trying to spend my precious free time working on some POS house in a suburb I don't care for.

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Thanks to the 3x income requirement for a lease, my complex is full of working aged people up to retired. No real significant amount of young people and everybody has jobs (based on the empty parking lot during the day). It's a nice place to live in. My dishwasher is about to crap out, but I don't have to worry about it at all. I used that dishwasher money towards travel instead