Sounds like you need to cut back, way back. ;-)

https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...

Walkable neighborhoods exist as well.

Sounds like you think you know far more about other people than you do.

>> "Walkable neighborhoods exist as well."

Even all the highly-paid (but still not enough) people I know are struggling to compete for houses in them. I don't have a chance.

Excuses are like assholes, everyone's got one. No need for a house. I don't have one, but I do have walkability and sufficient solitude, aka freedom from the boob-tube and associated neuroses. They were choices I made, prioritized over material things.

Good for you. Either share how you did it and stop gloating and judging, or go away.

You're the visitor here, cowboy. Got a job, lived beneath my means. Biggest mistake was to not finish a degree first.

This is how I felt before I moved to a place with a lower cost of living, yes, I still need to drive everywhere, but at least I'm not miserable all the time. The pace of life slowed down once I got off of the coast.

Moving costs money that's hard to get when you already can't afford life, and further isolates you until you get integrated into the new community. It's a risky proposition. A lot of people who find themselves homeless got there by moving without being prepared for the other end.

Yeah, I prepared for moving for a bunch of years before I moved. A bunch of years, as miserable as I was in Seattle, moving away from my safety net was scary. I'm much happier in Dallas, thats as much weather and how different people are here.