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A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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I guess I'm lucky that I don't get bored easily because I can afford a house quite easily since I don't have to live somewhere "fun."
With "fun" do you mean places where there are jobs?
Or maybe where their friends and family live? Where their kids have friends and support groups? Maybe where they've lived much of their life and don't want to leave?
The previous poster is just making shit up so they can cast shade. It's sad, really.
Yes, my own lived experience of not needing or wanting things people desire in cities is clearly something I made up.
I suspect you're just deflecting now as that's not what your comment communicated or suggested. You said they're making their decision to stay in Portland because they want to live somewhere fun, something that isn't even suggested in the article.
When you make a statement with no evidence to support it, it's often referred to as "making shit up". If you can cite a reference in the article that explicitly states that they're staying in Portland because they want "fun", I'll eat my words and issue a public apology (edit: as a post, not a comment, on .world for all to see.)
No, I said I'm glad I don't need the "fun" that people keep telling me is why people choose to live in cities. But if you want a citation, here's a quote from the article:
So maybe not "fun" but definitely happiness, which is fun adjacent.
I work from home. Everywhere has a job.
But, no, these folks weren’t complaining about jobs. They were complaining about not having stuff to do.
Someone here clearly hasn't checked their privilege or even just thought about it.
If you actually read the article, you'll see this is also just made up.
I'm posting this in my underwear while getting paid. I know I have priviliege.
But so do the folks in the article:
And that is relevant to my comment how?
Because you said I was privileged because I could work from home, but the woman in the article works from home. Why couldn't she do that in Spokane?
Do you realize how hard you deflect or is your normal MO just a constant red herring fishing expedition?
I'm going to break this down in summary for the audience, then I'm disengaging to preserve my mental health.
You: these people just want to live in Portland because it's fun. They should move. Jobs are everywhere. I work from home.
Me: that's an awfully privileged thing to say (as in, jobs aren't everywhere for everyone and not everyone can work from home, including the electrician husband in the article).
You: The woman in the article is privileged too.
Me: what does that matter?
You: she could work from home like me.
Like any of that has any bearing on anything. You're just stretching hard to justify being judgmental and are cranking out bad faith arguments to support that.
Having things to do is important to some of us.
Also the fact that you work from home doesn't mean that you won't need to find another job later, and then your “stuff to do” might become a multi-hour commute to the new workplace.
I will never go back into an office and, thankfully, I have a role in an industry where they won't make me. And if they try I can always just go back to freelancing.
I work from home don't assume I will be able to forever.
I've been fully remote for the last six years, through two jobs. Prior to that I was 80% remote for five years.
I will not be taking a job that forces me to be in an office, and I'm in a segment of my industry where WFH is going to stick around for a long time.
They sound like the kind of couple whose phones beep all day with social media bollocks because they can't bear to not feel a dopamine hit for ten seconds.