I’ve been skeptical of house prices since I was in college. A lot of my contemporaries in our flagship state school used their full ride scholarships to pay for school and federal student loans to buy houses. One of my friends did and I was his roommate, when my then best friend (his girlfriend) moved out, leaving her room to me (she asked me to be his roommate). Anyway, he introduced me to all the folks who were on this band wagon. Meanwhile, I knew it would be my luck I’d get in trouble for doing the same 😀 So I graduated college into the 2007/2008 housing crises. These housing prices made me skeptical then, the prices now give me anxiety! I refuse to buy an overpriced house. I am in the market for a house now but it’s in a much lower cost of living area and I work remotely. In my opinion, the only method by which to have an affordable, regular priced house (and life!) is to work remotely and live in a LCOLA (lower cost of living area). Most of the jobs for my professions, that pay decent, are in major cities but when you factor in housing prices and/or commute that decent works out to be unaffordable and down right absurd (for example, I could make $135k/yr working hybrid in Atlanta but Google the average price of housing and then HOUSES in Atlanta, and Georgia is a LCOLA state). I refuse to live in a major city/metropolitan area anymore. All of these high prices give me anxiety, so LCOLA is the only thing I’ll do. Anything else isn’t the American Dream; it’s a scam 😮
