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If the rent exceeds 1 week pay or the quality of life is too poor, the job isn't worth it and find somewhere else to belong has been my experience.
If like now I'm work from home I'd splurge on the place. I'm going to be there forever.
If I'm just working and then going out, then as long as it isn't roach infested the cheap option.
My advice for car purchases is reverse.
Shitty place. Save money, see what you can live with for 5 years, and then buy a house with your new lower standards.
Honestly, all the "luxury" apartments in my area are super fucking cheap(ly made) and charge out the ass for the word "Luxury". Best rental experiences I've had are from direct owners, or mid size local companies, renting out an established building that isn't old, but isn't new, think 70s to early 90s in construction year.
Buying a house is a real paradigm shift. My monthly housing went from 1500 a month to 2500 a month, but at least I'm not throwing money in a hole. Take any money you save renting, and put it towards a house, or invest it, otherwise you are falling behind.
As I keep saying to my partner, the defining line for millennials, between the haves and the have-nots is going to be owning a home. For boomers, it was having a college degree, for Gen X, it was having investments. The best I can hope for is a few thousand ft^2 to call my own.
The luxury apartments are all well out of my price range, anyway ... those tend to be $2k.
Housing is way too expensive in my area for it to be a good investment. Another commenter explained below, but housing is so expensive here that it is potentially better to invest money rather than buy a house. To even be able to afford $2500 a month... that's like $100k salary?? If I did that at my salary, I would stop being able to afford basic necessities ... any emergency health/repair funds would be financially catastrophic, and it would not be worth the hit to my quality of life. Not to mention you need like 100k just for a down payment. You see my income... if I took the cheap rental and invested my savings it would still take 10 years to make that, at which point I would be 40 years old and the houses would probably cost even more. I'd have to work until I was 70 with the typical 30 year loan. You must realize that this financial advice is very entitled.
But yes, I agree that investing the money I save through cheaper housing would be a good move.
The millenials I know who own a home all have support from their families, anyone else I know who is even close to being able to afford a house has VA benefits. Although I and my friends are all younger millennials. The cohort encompassing people in their late twenties as well as people in their early forties means it's kind of useless for a lot of generalizations. Younger millennials/Gen Z are increasingly unlikely to afford a home.
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