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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not only that but some people just don't want to own! We moved away while I was fully remote knowing full well that might be temporary, so what, I should have been forced to buy a house instead of renting? How would I have bought something else when needing to move back if the house I was forced to purchase didn't sell quickly enough?

What's funny as well is that home ownership to the level we've seen it since the 50s is an historical anomaly, even today there's more home owners than there was 100 years ago so the people we see complaining are mostly people that wouldn't be able to afford a house no matter what or that are young enough that it will just happen later on in their life or (based on what I've seen with many of my younger colleagues) that don't want to start with what they're actually able to purchase as a first home and instead want to start big and potentially never have to move again.