I have recently bought a house and will be a slave to the bank for decades.
But:
I don't live in a major tech city = house prices are cheaper.
I rented for years and years slowly building a deposit before looking for a house.
I had ZERO expectation of buying a house on leaving university. Why would I expect to do that?
I didn't and don't buy retail coffee every day. (in fact i don't buy retail anything everyday day).
In my twenties computer games used to cost approx the same as aaa console games, none of this freemium/app pricing schemes also DVDs/CDs were full priced, no free streaming. And because I couldn't afford more stuff the answer was to just buy less.
yeh but you also just said youve resigned to being a slave, and I'm not going to bash our generation for wanting to imagine a world where we are not slaves to a bank forever.
I chose to live in a village in another country than my native country with one of the reasons being I could pay my house cash. This world is already there if you are more flexible about your location. Luckily I do not generally like cities at all and never did.
I'm not a boomer.
I have recently bought a house and will be a slave to the bank for decades.
But: I don't live in a major tech city = house prices are cheaper.
I rented for years and years slowly building a deposit before looking for a house.
I had ZERO expectation of buying a house on leaving university. Why would I expect to do that?
I didn't and don't buy retail coffee every day. (in fact i don't buy retail anything everyday day).
In my twenties computer games used to cost approx the same as aaa console games, none of this freemium/app pricing schemes also DVDs/CDs were full priced, no free streaming. And because I couldn't afford more stuff the answer was to just buy less.
slowly slowly.