Re:Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
by reducesuffering on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:49PM
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Years ago, buying a home seemed like something you can easily share and celebrate with acquaintances. Recently buying a home in the Bay Area, I felt that's passed and I try not to bring it up. I don't feel any satisfaction from celebrating or bringing up something that 20 people in a gathering have very dim prospects of ever affording, and questions about it make me feel uneasy about their possible uneasiness.
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Re:Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
by refurb on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:32PM
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No. Boasting about buying an expensive home was never socially acceptable. Well, except maybe among the rich.
Re:Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
by reducesuffering on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:12AM
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I agree, because it's expensive. But a modest American home was never that expensive for most adults, hence "house warming parties", and thus I'm fairly sure was socially acceptable.
Re:Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
by refurb on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:59AM
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I mean, I went to house warming parties 5 years ago when housing was not a lot cheaper in the Bay Area. As long as you don’t throw it in peoples faces you’re probably fine.
And “can never afford” seems like an extrapolation of the last ten years ignoring corrections that came before that.
For those of us who lived through 2008 it’s amazing how quickly we went from “i’ve never over pay for a house again” to “housing only goes up”.