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Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline by pc86 on Friday June 27, 2025 @10:21AM (#44397023)
"in the high cost of living areas" is the rest of that sentence.

It is perfectly doable, even common, to buy a home in low and medium COL areas without any assistance from family, living or dead. The fact that you can't do this in NYC or SF is not an indictment of anything other than NYC and SF.

Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline by marcus_holmes on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:38PM (#44417997)
And yeah, you can buy a house in the bush in Australia if you want.

But there aren't any jobs there, so you're going to need an inheritance to support your family of 5.