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Originally Posted by mikemhg
This. People need to stop posting stupid stories about their folks "hustling hard" in the 70's/80's and being able to buy a place, that has literally no resonance on today's climate.
We just came back from Phoenix yesterday and I was speaking with a late 60-something retiree from Vancouver, the topic of housing came up -- he was a professor at UBC, friend of a friends.
The man had such an honest take on the idea that his generation should acknowledge and recognize how lucky and privileged they were to be in the right place at the right time circumstance wise. He described how much he hated hearing his boomer friends on the golf course talking about younger folks needing to pull up their bootstraps and simply "work harder" to achieve what they did. It's such an indignant and disingenuous take on a real problem.
Needless to say it was refreshing to see someone so well-established carry such an honest opinion on the subject, one that I don't hear that often from his generation.
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My mom has no disillusion that we aren't working hard enough, she knows they had it easy and regrets not taking more risks with their money. Dad was too conservative about things.
She's pushed hard for us to buy a house and said we should have bought a house when we bought the townhouse. We were just simply not in the right financial place to buy a house, nevermind that at that stage of life I had no desires to own a SFH. I wasn't even sure I wanted kids at that point.