Turns out being surprised by the rent going up by 50% during a pandemic where a lot of people were forced out of the labor force also sucks. Whenever I see "fi

Turns out being surprised by the rent going up by 50% during a pandemic where a lot of people were forced out of the labor force also sucks. Whenever I see "financial advice youtubers" saying people shouldn't buy their homes because there's no liquidity I think about my 2.5K 30 years fixed mortgage in a mcmansion which is the same I paid for rent in a 2br in PHL's center city 3 years ago. Had I listened to them i would likely be paying half my salary in rent alone to live at some shitty apartment building with bad schools and a landlord that was going to hike the price as far as he could. Guess that constant stress might not be good for my health.