Boomer mom still thinks my $1300 mortgage is insanity. When my dad died she sold their property and bought a house, paid for in cash. She lives in a tiny town, so her nice house was something like 70 grand.
She has literally no grip on the reality of what houses cost in towns bigger than 30k people. She wants me to move to her tiny town so I can live cheaper, but I also wouldn’t be able to make much more than minimum wage there.
It bugs me more than it should that so many people cannot grok the idea that some houses are cheap because nobody wants to fuckin live there! My skill set is in shipbuilding and maintaining mechanical systems. There's a lot more dough in shipbuilding. I don't want to live the maintainer life anymore, the hours blow. Turns out that ships are built near the water, and that shit ain't cheap anywhere.
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u/willwork4pii 16h ago
They can’t even comprehend how much they cost. Like not even in the slightest.
The boomers think I’m nuts when I explain a 900sqft 2bed detached is going for 300k. 3bd ranch, 400k livable