re: Cost to buy = $2,700/month. Cost to rent = $1,850/month

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Its just funny because we're on a board full of people who pay over $50,000 for a pickup truck

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These aren't your words I guess.

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I was responding to the poster who said "Millennials and Zoomers would rather own the latest tech gadget than a home"

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all you “need” is a roof, a place to sleep, a place to cook, and a place to shite.

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My goal with housing and transport was to buy the bare minimum required.

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My goal with housing and transport was to buy the bare minimum required.

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I didn't even like having a house.

I downsized to an apartment and it has been awesome and real money saver.

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Then why even argue against what I said in response?

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Because your response was bad.

And this is a message board and it is what you do.

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I didn't even like having a house.

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I hate all the work that comes with it. But at this point it’s my cheapest option. I’ve paid on it a long time.

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I downsized to an apartment and it has been awesome and real money saver.

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Would be more expensive for me, but am considering moving to a place where I don’t need a car as much (city) during early retirement. I’ve lived in rural areas forever

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It's not though, unless you think it's wrong.

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Do we need to do this all over again?

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And this is a message board and it is what you do.

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So you do disagree with it?

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Disagree with what? With what your posted? You're not even making sense anymore. Just stop.

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ive owned 3 houses none of which have had 3 bedrooms

all you “need” is a roof, a place to sleep, a place to cook, and a place to shite. For a bunch of guys who rail on others about equal opportunities vs equal outcomes yall sure do think you’re owed something you really aren’t

I never had a mortgage less than 5% until the very end. And I could afford it on a less than average salary while raising a child in private school because I bought the smallest house I could live in each time

Mention bunk beds to a young adult these days and you get a thousand yard stare

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Cool.

We were talking about an average home. Sounds like you live in houses that are below average.

I would have no problem buying a <2k sq ft house. The problem is the vast majority of those houses are in shitty/declining neighborhoods

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because millennials are constantly being told that they're just lazy or somehow their fault they can't afford housing....as if it's something they did. This is the purpose for pointing out that the issues started well before they could even vote.

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I'm wondering why all these millennials can't afford housing. My son and his wife are 36. They do not have college degrees and only have average jobs. They own a home and one of their cars is fairly new. All their friends own homes. Some are college grads and some are not. They don't own homes in the fanciest new neighborhoods. My daughter (no pics) is 31. She went back to PT school. Many of her friends own homes...in fact, all of them that want to own them do. Millennials I work with own homes.

Maybe Houston is just different. I see TONS of young 2 income professionals with homes that are much nicer than mine. Maybe y'all live in the wrong place.

Majority of the world don’t live in places where people own “homes”.