This is a really, really stupid question.
House expensive and job no pay enough.
Two posts down my feed is this:
Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
Being muscled out by cash paying conglomerates, investment funds and venture capital is always fun.
because the previous generation were all robber barons that drained the world for their personal gain at the expense of the children they insisted on having.
I watched my own father illicitly borrow millions of dollars by bullshitting other rich boomers, acquire vast acres of property across the country, promise the family he would pass it all down to us and our futures were set, then have everything taken away by courts as he and and the rest of my family drank themselves to death after snorting away every family assets on cocaine and other drugs.
I lost everything I owned after investing my time and energy into being there for my family and they just crashed out without any accountability to their next generation. Starting over in the middle of my life from nothing. I may never own property of any kind. I probably will never retire.
I feel like it was all just a microcosm view of what’s happening broadly. The legacy of the boomer generation is going to be crushing us for a century to come or maybe forever.
Can’t wait to take care of them in their adult diapers too.
In our one-bedroom apartments that we still struggle to afford. Not sure how we’ll be able to take care of them full time when we’re also still working full time.
And people think we can afford to save for our own retirements. Lol.
WE ARE ALL FUCKING POOR
Honestly, better than being rich. I mean it.
As far as having a personality and sense of empathy? Absolutely. I also like knowing that people love me for who I am, rather than because I’d have money.
But to not have to worry about affording the roof over my head would be pretty nice.
People aren’t paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.
Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.
The worst part is that I am getting paid a salary I could have only dreamed about years ago, and yet I still can’t afford anything with how drastically everything went up in price.
Wages in general have gone up a little bit, but it’s crazy to me that I’m earning more than 5x as much as I used to 15 years ago and feel like my buying power has not noticeably improved at all. I’m still stuck living in crappy apartments because that is all I can afford.
Exactly! My partner and I together make over $100,000 a year and finally we are just barely comfortable. All of our bills get paid and even though the budget is tight, we still have a little money and decent credit. I could put a $1,000 guitar on credit and pay that off no problem, but there’s no way we could get a house.
Maybe if our wages doubled then we could find something further out in the sticks. Hopefully by that time more companies allow full remote work because I already lose an hour or more a day traveling.
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It’s a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn’t care
Maintenance, gas, car insurance, more expensive food, tolls, parking, and time. It’s a massive paycut for many people when you really think about it.
Stop the food waste. Collaborators can be eaten too.
If they’re too bitter for consumption, they can probably be composted and used in a garden. Either way, we’ll get a rich meal.
Bury them where? I can’t afford a plot of land :(
Ocean it is
Bring back the Commons; fertilize with rich bodies.
Been bankrupt since I first tried avocado toast circa 2008
Article title writer pictured here
I love it when a headline makes me audibly laugh, thought this was the onion for a second
“Holding off”? No, I can’t afford it. I’d love to own a home but my wage doesn’t keep up with inflation.
At today’s prices, a family would need to earn $126,700 a year to afford monthly payments on an average home purchased in 2024, up from $79,300 annually in 2021, according to a report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
We are so screwed.
And they think someone can save for a down payment how? If you need 6 figures to afford the payments who can do that and have a down payment?
I know no one really asked this question.
- Average house price in Q1 2025 was $500,000.
- $100k down at 6.5% with great credit and monthly payments of $3180 for 30yrs.
How many people can say they will have a job that pays that well for 30 yrs?
$100k down
Fucking LMAO
“Yeah, before you buy, we want an amount of money you will never have at any one point in your entire life before we consider thinking about suggesting a mortgage to you”
Oh…you poor bastard. Now you can pay the PMI and your morrgage will be around $4400 a month. You can save up $15-20k and refi when rates go down.
Welcome to renting for ever.
when rates go down
My sweet summer child, how dense and naive you are.
One magical day, they will return. So says the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Unless you live near a major city. Then you double the price of housing.
also, major city now means any city with even an attempt at commuter rail
I hear many millennials prefer to live in their cars. 🤡
The longer you live in a car, the more coffee and avocado toast you can have.
Probably the same reason megacorporatins are turning in record profit, year over year, and a very few people have increased their income by several billions of dollars, but that’s just a guess. 💁
Don’t forget about the corporations that are buying as many houses a quick as possible (faster than a person who will have a mortgage can) and at a higher price than what a person can/will pay becaue they are using them as investments.
Absolutely!
Actually the report that came out recently (the one that found institutional real estate investors buying something like 27% of all available homes) made an important note: most of the companies buying these homes are so-called “mom n pop” landlords who own < 5 houses
So it’s actually corporations AND fucking boomers.
That is an irrelevant statistic. If one big company buys 1000 homes and four small companies each buy 3 then 80% of the companies are small landlords while 98.8% of the homes are owned by a big company.
Jesus fuckin christ are these people seriously asking that question??
Wages didn’t increase at the rate of inflation for like 80 years. The USA is now a shithole country in general and emigration out has reached all time highs, kids don’t want to buy homes here. All of the overseas investors looking to purchase US properties no longer trust in the USA due to volatility due to an actual dictatorship forming and heavy fines and tariffs being put in place by countries on either side of the issue.
I could go on.
