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oyster  ·  2309 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are student loans and avocado toast really keeping millennials from buying homes?

It’s our commitment issues honestly. I’m also doubting I’m the only one who has written off a few places to buy a house because it will lose all it’s value once it’s underwater.





kleinbl00  ·  2308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not gonna lie. The waterfront properties I fantasize about? I check their height above sea level.

There's a great piece of property I've been following for a long time. It used to be a "fixer upper" because the neighbor's property sloughed off onto it and crushed half the house. It went from $1.9m to $475k with a creak and a groan.

Now it's $300k with a house to haul off. The neighbor's house went on sale about four months ago... and sold for $2.3m. There was absolutely no notes in the listing about "subsidence" or "landslides" or "shoring" or any of that shit.

WanderingEng  ·  2309 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought you were going to go the direction of "will need to move in a couple years because of layoffs or limited growth at a company."

oyster  ·  2308 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well now that I live in a landlocked province.... actually no it’s still climate change... lots of wildfires.