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Re:Americans Aren’t Making Babies, and That’s Bad for the Ec... by xyzzyz on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:56PM (#23988930)
The thing is, rent rises faster than income.

That’s why most married people with kids take a mortgage. Mortgage payments stay flat, but the actual expense goes down over time, because you pay less and less of interest and more of principal.

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Re:Americans Aren’t Making Babies, and That’s Bad for the Ec... by dvdhnt on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:16AM (#23997724)
Anecdotally, my mortgage went up every year due to some combination of assessment values, property taxes, or whatever black magic Wells Fargo and the government had in their pocket.
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