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The thread has been about buying one bedroom/studio places for only $400k. If you are planning on starting a family that seems like a really bad idea.
by davidcbc 8y ago
The thread has been about buying one bedroom/studio places for only $400k. If you are planning on starting a family that seems like a really bad idea.
- saalweachter 8y agoI mean, maybe? Firstly, to be perfectly frank, you can get 2, 3 years into your first kid before a studio makes a practical difference over a 2-bedroom apartment. For the first chunk, keeping the crib in your bedroom for ease of care is pretty normal, and once the kid is mobile chances are they're going to be sneaking into your bed to sleep at every opportunity anyway. Secondly, the average length of ownership of a house in the US is like 7.5 years. A lot of people never make it through their 30 year mortgage because they either move for work, their circumstances change and they need more or less house or their income changes and they can/can't afford a nicer, bigger house than they could before. So living in a studio well into baby #1 before deciding to trade up to a larger place when it's time to look for the "good" schools or baby #2 is on the way is kind of a perfectly normal way to go about things?