Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With “fun” do you mean places where there are jobs?

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or maybe where their friends and family live? Or where they’ve lived all their life and don’t want to leave?

    The previous poster is just making shit up so they can cast shade. It’s sad, really.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, my own lived experience of not needing or wanting things people desire in cities is clearly something I made up.

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      • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I suspect you’re just deflecting now as that’s not what your comment communicated or suggested. You said they’re making their decision to stay in Portland because they want to live somewhere fun, something that isn’t even suggested in the article.

        When you make a statement with no evidence to support it, it’s often referred to as “making shit up”. If you can cite a reference in the article that explicitly states they they’re staying in Portland because they want fun, I’ll eat my words and issue a public apology.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I work from home. Everywhere has a job.

    But, no, these folks weren’t complaining about jobs. They were complaining about not having stuff to do.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I work from home. Everywhere has a job.

      Someone here clearly hasn’t checked their privilege or even just thought about it.

      But, no, these folks weren’t complaining about jobs. They were complaining about not having stuff to do.

      If you actually read the article, you’ll see this is also just made up.

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m posting this in my underwear while getting paid. I know I have priviliege.

        But so do the folks in the article:

        When they’re not at camp, she says, the kids stay home with her while she works remotely.

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    • rolling_resistance@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having things to do is important to some of us.

      Also the fact that you work from home doesn’t mean that you won’t need to find another job later, and then your “stuff to do” might become a multi-hour commute to the new workplace.

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I will never go back into an office and, thankfully, I have a role in an industry where they won’t make me. And if they try I can always just go back to freelancing.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They sound like the kind of couple who’d phones beep all day with social media bollocks because they can’t bear to not feel a dopamine hit for ten seconds.

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