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"I’ve been saving for a house for about five years. And I’m further away than when I started,” he sighs.
Literally how we felt, and that was quite a few years back. Can’t imagine how it feels these days.
“I would love to have a child, but I don’t think I could do it as one person with the costs of childcare and everything … "
Um, did someone forget to factor the co-parent in, or is voluntary single parenting en vogue?
Did you read the rest?
Yep. I agree with the other stuff, but that part caught my attention.
It caught mine too, but the rest is still a damnin indictment on our current system
You read her words, they are clear. Take them at face value. The confusion is coming from your own perception of the situation, so change your perception, perhaps to what she said?
When I read it, I thought, “Ah, she’s planning for worst case scenario. Smart.” Especially in her generation. They are used to thinking like that because they’ve been fucked at every point in their life.
Seems like something is wrong with the world when this is the new reality for every generation to come. I remember the joke about capitalism, “You will own nothing, and be happy,” but it’s less funny when you see it happening to everyone.
At this point we’ve circled back to feudalism, there are a few lords, they control the government as well as production of everything. They are accountable to no one, they own all the land, due to their seizures of the government they can force the government to sell them government land for oil drilling, pipelines, etc. Their children are trained from a young age to take over, they inherit, the cycle continues.
We’re in the techno-middle-ages.
Varoufakis is that you?
Marriage and long term relationship rates have alao been plummeting along side every other “milestone” indicator. Obviously women have a much easier time becoming a single parent than men do, but single parents exist.
I’m aware they exist, but the way it was phrased made it sound like that’s the plan all along.
That’s my plan, well I’m looking at permanent care, but same goal.
I mean, for every female single parent there is a male single parent so your logic does not follow
I’m a single guy. I have to go through an adoption process if i wanted to become a parent this year. That’s a lengthy process with background checks, home inspections,and placement surveys that are taxing, exhausting, and dehumanizing.
My sister is a single woman, she just needs to find a guy to sperm her up. They guy doesn’t even have to know that he impregnated her. Finding unknown fathers is a notoriously difficult task, even with modern genetic testing.
I hear what you are saying, I’m just pointing out that a dad does exist for every child.
he may have been your father, but he weren’t your daddy.
Yondu is right, being a parent is something you earn by raising a kid, not by porking.
Why are long-term relationship rates decreasing? Is this another effect of mentally ill Gen Z coming into adulthood?
It’s more of an effect of retarded boomer consequences they’re not willing to take responsibility for. I mean just look at the U.S as a whole and what damage those mentally disabled religious people have done over the last couple of years. Religious people should be locked up in asylums and have their children taken from them before they do more harm.
You’ll need to be more specific. How do you think religion in the US is affecting the long-term relationships of young people?
Fuck compulsory allosexuality.
So I just read this, having just turned 30 in February and my wife turning 30 in 3 weeks time; it is super depressing.
We’re not even doing that badly we think, we are paying off two houses live in one rent the other. I’m a qualified tradesmen for the last 9 years my wife is about to finish her apprenticeship after 4 years.
We’re struggling, we’re not drowning I guess but fuck me we both work flat out 50 plus hours a week each and have no idea how we’re going to have children, pay for them especially while one of us stays home to look after them.
Obviously we’re doing better then a lot but people should be able to have one home on a single wage and support a family.
Yeah we’re similar. We’re 29/28, we own our house outright, and have 9 investment properties. But with interest rates what they are and the Mrs switching to part time work, we don’t know how we’re going to afford to buy our 10th investment property. We might have to compromise and make it an apartment 😭
Our parents had it so much easier.
Man I have issues with this. Your intentions are right and think you’re in the right mind set with trying to sympathize with people, but you own TWO homes and complaining about not having cash. Sell one, don’t be a landlord and start investing your money into one property. It’s silly to me that you are two people earning money, with two homes financed, one if which is generating extra income, and are talking like you’re single struggling to even find a place to live when everywhere is priced out, all because theres people with multiple houses trying to make a living off of the backs of others. I guarantee someone would love to own a first home let alone a second. Sell your second house start living within your means.
Of course I don’t know you, you could be renting it out to a group of homeless aids riddled children, but something tells me that’s not the case. There is something that doesn’t add up with your situation in why your struggling so much and you should re check your finances and spending habits.
We own two houses because we bought a house each before we were ever together to live in.
The house we have rented out doesn’t even cover the mortgage costs of the house. The problem is if it were sold today it’s a 100k loss.
I’m not saying we’re on full on struggle street but two incomes should be heaps, instead it pays for just enough for a regular life.
We should be in a way better position.
The problem is if it were sold today it’s a 100k loss.
How does that work? House prices have been going up since forever. Even if you bought at the highest peak and sold at the lowest trough of the last 5 or 6 years (if not longer) I’d be surprised if you managed to lose money on a house.
Because one house is in the northern Territory and property prices fell out the arse after the gasplant build
When it comes to those in their 30s, Grattan Institute data shows that in 2016, 30-year-olds contributed twice as much to support older Australians’ living standards than Boomers did at 30. And that’s adjusted for inflation. … The data projections expect 30-year-olds in 2041 to be paying nearly four times more.
Solid data behind the ladder pulling younger generations have been calling out since before the whole “avocado toast” boomer entitlement.
this generation has contributed more to support older generations … in part, because more well-off, older Australians are paying less tax.
I guarantee boomers and Gen-X won’t support a rebalancing, especially the type of rebalancing required — where housing being treated as an investment vehicle needs to cease via a dozen extreme regulations — like banning all ownership beyond a single investment property, banning all corporate ownership including SMSF’s, banning of non-resident ownership, extreme taxes for empty property, and most penalties (beyond a sensible grace period) including outright forfeiture and resale of the entire asset; coupled with strong tenancy regulations to bring us in line with the EU, where the status quo is the opposite of Australia, instead of renting = temporary accommodation and housing insecurity.
Gen X here. I also just bought a house a year ago. I support the elimination of housing-as-investment. It has always been a smoke and mirrors trick anyway.
You buy a house to live in. You put money into that house. Eventually, 30 years later, I won’t have to pay a mortgage any more but by that time I’ll be a very old man. In the meantime the value of the house has gone up. Hooray? Not really: I can’t get that money back out and live on it. To live on it, I’d have to sell the house. Then I’d need somewhere else to live. Oh, I suppose I could buy a house? Except the value of every other property has gone up just like mine. It’s break-even. It’s not an investment for anyone except developers and massive real estate corps.
I never understood why people care so much about their property values. I personally think it makes me worse off when my house goes up in value. Now I have to pay more in property taxes and I can’t move because all other houses are way more expensive too.
I totally hit the 30 year olds 30 years ago and my son is in the same age range now. He can’t afford to live on his own and I figured that if I was going to help him, I’d rather buy a condo for him to live in. I plan on putting it in his name when its paid off. Then I know he’ll have stable housing after I die. HOA + property taxes + utilities are way cheaper than rent.
I’ve been saying all this shit for years. Fuck John Howard and fuck greedy boomers.
Housing is a human right.
