• KaRunChiy
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    196 hours ago

    ≥ Mortgage You lost me there, renting is much more expensive than paying a mortgage off

    • @[email protected]
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      33 hours ago

      My rent is around 1800 euro, if I’d buy this apartment, my mortgage would be around 3000. That’s for more than half a mil. After 30 years I’d have paid off more than a mil.

      The company I rent from just got their financing much earlier, and in very big quantities. (Eg it has 100s to 1000s apartments and houses.)

      Every year I make more money, every year the place I live is more difficult to buy.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      -206 hours ago

      Depends where and how you live. My rent is $800 a month, but some mortgages are thousands of dollars.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 hours ago

        Where the fuck do you live with $800 rent? Middle of Montana? Dead center of Death Valley? Gtfo.

        • KaRunChiy
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          115 hours ago

          Ikr, just saw an ad for a nearby apartment wanting 1,200$ a month for a studio apartment… in Nebraska

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          -33 hours ago

          Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. It’s overpriced as hell.

            • @Lost_My_Mind
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              12 hours ago

              Yeah, but I’m not in your economy. Average wage around here is lkke $10/hr.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 hours ago

            You pay $500 less than the average American for rent. I think you may be lacking the perspective necessary to engage productively with this topic.

            • @Lost_My_Mind
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              12 hours ago

              My rent is $500 less than whatever metric you’re using, but our local ecconomy is also lowers than yours.

              Average wage here is 10/hr for a factory job. I’ve heard some places like Seattle make $20/hr just working at starbucks.

              And keep in mind my rent is basically 1 room.

      • KaRunChiy
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        16 hours ago

        Again, the “how you live” thing again, in your opinion, what is the “correct” way to live?