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• HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its another reason I would rather be older than younger. My janitor dad owned what I would call a castle (it was beat up but huge. something like the begining of caddy shack where the main character lived) and my mom could devote 40 hours to a combination of housework and errands and managing the kids.

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  • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m afraid that if the things keep going as projected (and such technologies will help), our kids would be super envy of us having a mortgage-funded place of our own to begin with.

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    • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I also see that. as much as I would love to have been born earlier I clearly see being born later is worse and worse. In my parents time part of the "dream" was to own a home free and clear. I decade or so back I realized young folks did not even understand that. The dream was warped to be to just have a mortgage backed place at all. It feels like now its the eternal mortgage that doesn't do anything more but protect against sudden rent spikes. I foresee the dream becoming just renting a place of your own without roommates.

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      • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The latter is already happening in many regions. Some people even try to look positively on it, but it’s clearly an “own nothing and be happy” mentality

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