yeah but how old were you when you got married?
How old were you parents?
At my age, my parents had paid off their house. Me? I just managed to get the mortgage going last year. And I earn a fuckton more than they did.
yeah but how old were you when you got married?
How old were you parents?
At my age, my parents had paid off their house. Me? I just managed to get the mortgage going last year. And I earn a fuckton more than they did.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When I got married the first time, I was 22 and my parents were in their late 50s. Strangely, it was getting divorced four years later that helped me out because, even though it wiped out all my savings, I ended up living very cheaply as a single person and I was making good money (late 80s now, before wage stagnation was bad). By the time I got married again in 96, with a small amount of help from my parents (and because real estate crashed around then), I was able to afford a down payment for a reasonable mortgage.