going to college isnt a guaranteed anymore, at least not in the last 10years.
We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
At least 3 years of only saving my pay to afford a shack. Still better than what Americans get.
underisk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
we shouldnt have to afford a house
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Iddidn’t go to college and I bought a house at 30
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This is a needless concern. You don’t have to worry about affording a house by 30 by going to college.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only good way to get a house by age 30 is to become a plumber, electrician or other type of job that pays well with minimal study and save up while living at parents or sharing a flat with 3 mates.
Then you need to save heavily and invest in stocks and/or bonds with the saved money so you can beat inflation. With around 30k saved per year it’s possible to get pretty early onto the property ladder.
Going to college and living somewhere in NYC for example will get you nowhere close to 30k a year with student debt and if you have a kid you’re screwed.
LucidiaDiamond@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The necessity of college more indicates that our public education system doesn’t go far enough. High school should go up to the bachelor level and masters/Phd programs should be extended. There just isn’t enough time to catch up to the latest science. Our knowledge is expanding after all.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
High school should go up to the bachelor level
The reason college/university exist is to allow people to chose what to learn specifically. There is no way to extend highschool to a bachelor level, since there are so god damn many different bachelors. It is not realistic to extend highschool so much, that you can teach people a bachelor degree in, as example, physics or engineering.
burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I had a house before 30. It was okay I guess. Sold due to divorce, now I rent again. I’d love to own another house but not the glorified trailer I had before
Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
26 Down votes? Who downvotes something like this?
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s pretty much only a problem in the US.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No…. It’s substantially worse in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, umm I’m sure more but I read about theirs most.
teolan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No it’s not. In France it’s just as much of a problem if you live in one of the big cities.
khepri@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well the good news is banks really don’t give a shit and they make it pretty trivial to get yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt whether you have a degree or not.
richardmtanguay@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
This is why we need tiny houses, trailer homes, etc! We also need to get rid of these real estate corporations that are manipulating the prices of everything we need to live with, especially housing!!! :-(
teolan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You need apartment buildings. Lots of them. Individual houses are extremely wasteful and isolate everyone from each other.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ah apartments, another way for you to never own anything and be on a subscription model for life.
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
trailer homes and tiny houses?? just build aparments. It is not that hard wtf