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Stop Looking for Your Forever Home
- rapjr9 3y agoYou can't assume your first home won't be your last home because you have no idea what the future will bring. Will you stay at the same job for the rest of your life? Will new houses be affordable and financeable? Will the area you live in change drastically? Will you stay married? Will you become married, have kids? Will you get a chronic disease? Will you have to take care of your parents? Will you have a child that has special needs? Will space junk fall on your house or a car fly off the road and crash into it? This article reads kind of like propaganda trying to get people to settle for buying any home in a high priced market where sales have gone down, it doesn't even mention renting as an option while waiting for new opportunities to open up.
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- E39M5S62 3y agoMy wife and I had a 'starter house' built in 2009, and paid it off in 2019. We've talked about moving out of the area, or into a house with a different layout / finishes / whatever. I'm not sure that's going to happen any time soon though - getting a mortgage at the current rates is just too hard to stomach when we had one at 3%, and now have nothing at all.
- JohnFen 3y agoPersonally, I found the process of buying a house to be so drawn-out and painful that I wouldn't want to do it again.
- jnwatson 3y agoI've been looking for a home with the new spouse for about a year now. Together, we make about 6x median income, yet we are still looking at the bottom end of the market.
- marssaxman 3y agoI've never understood the idea of a "forever home". Why would that be a thing you would want? I start feeling antsy when I spend too long living in one place; there's a whole world out there! My "forever home" will feature a headstone in a grassy field; until then, it's all temporary.