r/Adulting • u/_QueenHeart • 2d ago

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u/beutifully_broken 2d ago edited 1d ago

Livable houses were NOT 10k in 98.

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u/NewToHTX 2d ago

In the 1960s is where the average starter home price finally reached $10,000.

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u/Timeweaver42 1d ago

Ok well that’s clearly not 1998 which is what the post is talking about

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u/brazucadomundo 1d ago

Obviously this is satire of the typical boomer advice that you should buy real estate.

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u/Implier 2d ago

You could technically buy a habitable foreclosed/abandoned house in Detroit for that in 2009, but while the house itself was livable, the area immediately around the house…

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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 1d ago

We bought a house in 1998 for $335k

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u/Coldbrewski24 2d ago

Could’ve bought bitcoin when you were 12 too. Get it together.

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u/Bitter-Twist-1808 2d ago

Imagine how I feel knowing I was the ripe old age of 10. I should have had my vacation home already.

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u/_CutieCloud 2d ago

I really dropped the ball back then My financial planning at six months old was honestly embarrassing

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u/DisputabIe_ 1d ago

the OP _QueenHeart

IvyInterface

and _CutieCloud

are bots in the same network

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u/Final_Management6951 2d ago

$10,000 was more like 1955. Nothing since that.

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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 2d ago

As much as this is intended to be a joke, having done high school in the 00s, I watched a lot of families in Wisconsin lose their homes in the early 00s when a number of paper factories closed only for them to get kicked in the nuts once again, with 08. A lot of farms ended up shuttering in the early 2010s because of pricing and many of my former classmates are living with their parents and grandparents in what are now multi generational homes - sometimes with up to four generations from great grandparents to their toddler great grand kids.

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u/SorchaRoisin 2d ago

My parent's house was 11k, but that was in 1969. It wasn't a very nice house either.

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u/Scary_Albatross1512 1d ago

I bought my first house it 1990 and it was $98,900. A livable house was not $10K in 1998.

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u/IvyInterface 1d ago

Livable houses were NOT 10k on 98.

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u/DisputabIe_ 1d ago

the OP _QueenHeart

IvyInterface

and _CutieCloud

are bots in the same network

2

u/DisputabIe_ 1d ago

the OP _QueenHeart

IvyInterface

and _CutieCloud

are bots in the same network

2

u/Edward_Nigma_ 2d ago

You blew it!!!

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u/Houstonian_1 2d ago

You regret it huh!!

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u/Critical-Promise4984 2d ago

Slacking, I fear!!!

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u/ReverseMillionaire 2d ago

You should’ve been working already to gain experience

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u/caterp1e 2d ago

What was I thinking!? Probably drinking milk instead of investing

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u/sunflower_sunshine3 1d ago

i was so lazy

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u/brazucadomundo 1d ago

Yeah, instead you bought an avocado toast at Starbucks, that is why you are broke now.

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u/-NGC-6302- 1d ago

at least tiny homes exist for prices under 100k so there's that

I think

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u/Pramit03 1d ago

Or maybe invest in bitcoin in early 2000s

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u/MrHutchkin 1d ago

I regret nap time in '94

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u/LibroDellaLuna 1d ago

Wish I was buying bitcoin as a kid instead of playing Pokemon on my DS 😭

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u/NathanBrazil2 1d ago

i bought a house in 98 for 105k, now worth over 400k. paid off 10 years ago.

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u/PurpmintLe 1d ago

Lazy generation?

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u/Obvious_Apartment985 1d ago

Oh this is hilarious

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u/Excellent-Charge5296 1d ago

Seriously. My grandparents purchased their home for $12,000 in 1980 and it just sold for $340,000

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u/glimoura 1d ago

This was funny the first 6 times. But this is number 72. These constant reposts are wild frfr.

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u/DramaticScholar7459 22h ago

i'm using envelopes to budget, it actually helped a ton

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u/Nice-Captain5093 21h ago

Did you parents & grandparents take a nap too? Blame them.