Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new
Shift your blame to the housing market for jacking prices up for well over 40 years. Yes they used wfh as another excuse but seriously housing market has been fucked looooong before wfh
It’s not “they,” I’ve been watching my local market because I had been looking to buy.
One simple, extreme example: a piece of shit shed masquerading as a house sold for 65k in 2016 then in 2021 the asshat that bought it put it on the market for 190k
In what universe is that even a reasonable increase? It wasn’t 40 years, it was a direct reaction to “supply and demand.” Real estate agents were telling my friend who actually had the money to buy “if a house is on the market for more than 5 days there’s something wrong with it.”
That’s not a normal situation affected by decades of increases.
Shift your blame to the housing market for jacking prices up for well over 40 years. Yes they used wfh as another excuse but seriously housing market has been fucked looooong before wfh
It’s not “they,” I’ve been watching my local market because I had been looking to buy.
One simple, extreme example: a piece of shit shed masquerading as a house sold for 65k in 2016 then in 2021 the asshat that bought it put it on the market for 190k
In what universe is that even a reasonable increase? It wasn’t 40 years, it was a direct reaction to “supply and demand.” Real estate agents were telling my friend who actually had the money to buy “if a house is on the market for more than 5 days there’s something wrong with it.”
That’s not a normal situation affected by decades of increases.