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American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say
(www.theguardian.com)
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Off topic tanget but I'm pretty tired of being told "housing is affordable, just not where YOU want to live" I'm in a midwest state and buying a home anywhere near a city is apparently now a luxury.
All my home owning friends keep telling me to stop throwing away my money on rent, and just move somewhere the nearest grocery store is quick 40 minute drive away. There are USDA loans to help, no city tax, no homeless or crime, if I could only stop clinging to "societal interactions and infrastructure" I could have a great homestead!
What a joke.
This is so true, and something that really gets ignored in the discussion. I don't WANT to move to bumbfuck nowhere where I have no roots, I want to stay and give back to the community that raised and nurtured me into the person I am today. Unfortunately I (and a lot of others) have been priced out by home speculators.
How is there a loneliness epidemic in all age groups of our society, and yet no one is asking if one of the factors might be people having to move for education and then work to chase affordability, while getting pushed further and further away from their social networks?
Even if it were true, which it is not, "move to some nowhere shithole if you want to buy a house" is a stupid way of framing this untenable situation.
Yeah the whole, move away from all the jobs to buy a house you need your job to afford line is ridiculous.
It's not actually a joke, it's the reality of the current housing market. If you want to own a house now or soon, that is where they are affordable. The other part of that reality to face is that this situation is not going to be fixed anytime soon, so you will have to deal with it by renting a high-priced small place in a big city, or taking the option to own your home where you can afford to buy.
I'm on track to have my house paid off about 15 years early, out here in rural USA where houses can still be bought. I would never trade this life to live in a big city, unless it was free to do so. It's 5 minutes away from 2 grocery stores, 30 minutes away from the largest city in this part of the state. Most people in my area commute about 20-30 minutes to work. All of my peers own their own houses here too.
So you can laugh all you want at that "joke" but those of us living it are laughing at you paying $2000 a month for rent.
What you're describing is a suburb.
Yes, I live in a rural suburb. Most of my state is classified as a rural area by the USDA.