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I once thought that if i could ever make six figures, I'd be set for life. I could have anything i wanted. Now i make multiple times that number and i can still barely afford a house that's big enough for my family of 3. I'm house poor and an emergency could bankrupt me in an instant. I'm in the top like 0.1% of income earners. What the fuck?
Haha, not quite making as much as you, but I'm doing significantly better than the average person and saving is just impossible. Groceries, energy and basically every other inelastic good just crept up to take up an increasingly big slice of the budget. It's all shit you can't easily cut.
Then you hear conservatives talk about the fertility rate, and young people not having kids and you just think to yourself: "I can't afford to add kids to a family, we're barely getting by as it is.". The family values people don't give a shit about the economics of having one.
Family values == "create more laborers plebe"
How??? What kind of house do you live in? What kind of car do you drive?
I haven't bought a house yet. Been house shopping for about 4 months trying to find something in my budget. I drive a beat up old Honda Civic.
What housing market are you in? City?
Portland, OR. My budget realistically maxes out around 600k, and so far at that price all i can find are weird houses from 100 years ago with various flaws or in bad neighborhoods. Good houses seem to start around 750k.
If you make >$200,000/year and still struggle to find housing, you're the problem. It's sad how people like you feel they need more money when so many others, somehow, get by with significantly less. Why should you get it before them?
Probably because you feel entitled to live on the West Coast. You just want to ignore supply and demand.
I don't even understand this comment. Should the West Coast be completely unpopulated aside from rich people?
Obviously people should live where the jobs aren't.