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Cake day: February 17th, 2025

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  • their brains are warped because they grew up in a special environment (probably) post ww2 where all other industrialized nations productive capacity was destroyed and American laborers at the time (as well as capital) hugely benefited from it so they may be stuck in that mindset

    2014 was a low point in the housing market. There were HUNDREDS of houses available in the ~$150k range, many of them nicer than the one I rented. All I needed was ~$10k for a down payment, and I could have been paying $800 for a mortgage instead of $1,500 on rent, and all of that money spent would be retained in the form of equity even if I still had to move out. It probably would have saved my relationship too (my parents complain about not having any grandkids, BTW).

    This just seems overly selfish to me. My parents paid my college tuition and they even bought a house during covid lows for themselves to live in, and put it under my name.