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The market is always "low" in the areas I've lived in. That's my point. My brother also just but a very nice house for 180k. There are plenty of affordable plac

The market is always "low" in the areas I've lived in. That's my point. My brother also just but a very nice house for 180k. There are plenty of affordable places in this country. >People who bought houses in the last 10 years were lucky enough to get in when the market was historically low. You realize those same people also had to deal with a shitty job market and college loans to pay off as soon as they graduated right?

nate_meurer 5y ago
> You realize those same people also had to deal with a shitty job market and college loans to pay off as soon as they graduated right? I think this is a good point that's worth repeating in these conversations. It's easy to forget in better times, but economic crashes are really scary. The financial crisis scared the shit out of me; my job situation was tenuous and our finances were shaky, but my wife and I took a big gamble and bought a foreclosed house at what turned out to be the bottom of market. It seems like an obvious choice in hindsight, but it could easily have gone very badly.