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Originally Posted by Tapioca
Have you spoken to a mortgage broker or financial planner about what you can actually afford? Have you and your partner had a conversation about what your needs really are versus wants? As others have said, owning is not a cakewalk and requires sacrifice. My parents sacrificed and your parents probably did as well. My wife's parents couldn't even afford to get birthday gifts for my wife's friends, so they had to save the gifts my wife received on birthday to re-gift in order to save face.
If you really, really want land and were willing to buy a house in Langley, what's stopping you from buying a house today in Abbotsford for 550-600K?
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I know what I'm able to afford and what I'm able to
afford. You're right my parents sacrificed a lot. I know my dad went most of his life after having kids never buying anything for himself, the shitty times where stress levels were through the roof wondering if he'll have a job to go back to when it burned down, living pretty much always cheque to cheque.
It's because of this that I'm probably a bit more reserved with my cash. I don't ever want to live life stressed to the max, which is why I'm unwillingly to buy into an overpriced house in an inflated market
just to get in.
I also don't want to have to commute an hour back and forth everyday. If that's entitled then I guess I'm entitled but I refuse to spend 10-15 hours of my life every week just driving to work and back.
I'm not asking for handouts I'm asking that the government puts it's own people first so prices are affordable for the working middle class. What good does millionaires from other countries buying a house and not living in them do for us? Oh you get some tax money, great, at the expense of voters getting the shaft.