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I'm going to buy a House!
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I didn't have issues. Saved for about a year, nothing crazy, and asked for a loan. Now I own a nice two-story house about a 15 minute walk from the city center. I don't really get this "buying a home is impossible" -meme, I believed that too before I actually tried and was surprised how easy it was.
When was that? Where?
The house I bought in my 20s (for $275k, inflation adjusted) is now worth $475k.
The house I bought in my 30s ($480k, inflation adjusted) is now worth $800k
In my area at least, home prices are far outpacing inflation. I literally couldn't afford to buy the house I'm in today at its current value.
A couple years back during covid, in Finland. House prices here have been creeping up as well but not as aggressively as where you have lived. I doubt that's the case in all of the US, there must be places with more modest prices. I "downgraded" to a smaller city when I went from renter to owner, couldn't have bought a home to my liking in Helsinki due to the prices.
Well there's the issue. Finland isn't experiencing anywhere near the level of housing cost inflation of the US, Canada, and Australia.
And cheaper areas in these countries are cheaper for very good reasons (they suck to live in/have no jobs available).
They have Social Services too if I'm not mistaken.
"Social services" can hold a wide range of stuff and arguably every country does have social services, but yeah it's one of the nordic social democracies with an extensive social safety net in place. I'm extremely grateful for it, even though I personally don't use those services (apart from you know, like roads and shit) and they get funded through my income.
Which means you are not spending monstrous amounts each month for private health insurance which shall only cover things after you've spent 10K