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Even in rural areas you can no longer get the same house that your parents had for the equivalent money. My parents have an extremely nice house on a beautiful
by Auracle 5y ago
Even in rural areas you can no longer get the same house that your parents had for the equivalent money.
My parents have an extremely nice house on a beautiful 60 acre piece of land. My dad did water & sewer work and my mom worked part time when we were young and later worked as a postmaster.
My wife and I both have degrees and jobs that pay way better after accounting for inflation, and our house is absolute shit by comparison. My parent’s house and land is worth millions. My wife’s parents did what is pretty standard around here and built on a lake, also with low paying jobs. Their home is probably worth close to a million or so as well.
- ajford 5y agoExactly. There's so many stories from earlier generations about working their way through college and a family home. My partner and I make three what my parents did, and while we're comfortable, we're nowhere near what my parents were at 20-30 years ago because of inflation. There's no chance I'm able to buy a home within an hour of the Metro I'm living in within Texas. I'm really hoping working from home sticks around as most major cities are quickly becoming so costly to live in. It's so bad I've been talking to some family about going in together on some rural land to split and create a family commune type thing to share infrastructure while living rural. A number of us can work fully remote as long as we have solid online connectivity.