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Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by pengaru on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:23PM (#31711042)
> I'm on the opinion of, if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live.

If you have the luxury of being able to live anywhere (e.g. 100% remote work, or no need for work), there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy. I don't think it makes sense to buy high unless you have very limited options.

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by hello_moto on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:50AM (#31715412)
This luxurious assumption only holds if the person has worked remotely prior to the pandemic.

The folks that got their life situation updated due to Covid19 should think and let it simmer for a while.

I have coworker that decided to move far, outside major tech city and now with RTO and recession, he's seeing less remote opportunity with the same high level of income as the major tech city.

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by throwoutway on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:36PM (#31720033)
Despite RTO, there’s literally more “remote opp” than ever before in human history
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by 0des on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:25PM (#31711054)
Plenty of room (and bbq) down here, we'd be happy to have y'all.
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by daniel_iversen on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:37PM (#31711148)
Where is “down here” - hopefully you don’t mean Australia because we’ve had a housing bubble bigger than the US and we are just (probably) slowly about to come down from it :)
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by eckza on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:44PM (#31711199)
Probably Texas.

There is... _so much Texas_ that isn't Austin or Houston or DFW or San Antonio.

A lot of it's really great, too. I miss Texas.

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by chasd00 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @12:00AM (#31711294)
If in could live anywhere in Texas it would be Alpine. I was married in Marathon and I’ve always been drawn to that part of the state. I have roots and work in Dallas though so that’s where I am… for now.
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by jason-phillips on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:45PM (#31711211)
Howdy neighbor
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by citboin on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:48PM (#31711234)
> ….there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy.

Where?

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by pengaru on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:57PM (#31711274)
> Where?

There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com.

A cursory search using obvious keywords reveals that Cambodia is one such place, where one can apparently live in downtown Phnom Penh for less than $500/mo.

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by 0des on Sunday June 12, 2022 @12:07AM (#31711344)
> There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com.

Don't post this type of stuff here.

Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by pengaru on Sunday June 12, 2022 @12:17AM (#31711384)
Don't ask me a low-effort trivially-answered yourself question without expecting me to tell you where you can answer such questions yourself since you apparently don't know how.
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by citboin on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:30AM (#31721555)
Ok, wow, so it is not trivial and my one question was intended to be just an opening question in a larger conversation. It took some effort and multiple website searches to find affordable rentals in the USA that were not in high crime areas, near specialized healthcare that I need, with reasonable laws regarding certain things that matter to me, and that had the amenities I was searching for. If you had simply said “Cambodia” we could have had an interesting conversation about how useless Google is in this case.
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by 0des on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:10AM (#31711941)
Bless your heart.
Re:Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house? by qot on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:42AM (#31713223)
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