My neighbor bought at $900,000. They eventually needed to move for work so they put the house up for sale at $1,500,000.00. A few months later to 1.3 million. Then weeks later $950,000. 4 days ago they switched it to for rent at $3,985 a month. Like dude, no matter what it's too much! 900k is too much and the rent is too much.

Is Abysmal on both ends. Plus now as a rental that house will be incurring damage. But that's how you end up owning two homes. You just can't sale the first one so you rent it out.

In the long run, yeah, it does save a lot of money to prepare your own meals and coffee, even now. But the people who yap like toast and coffee are the sole reason things are unaffordable truly suck and are completely detached from reality.

How tf you don't have a house if you didn't get avocado toast?

To be fair though, I'm living in a village and mostly cook for my family myself. I've been to Warsaw the other day and visited a small roardside store and a cafeteria.

For the price of a sandwich I could make an entire meal. For the price of what I bought in a cafeteria (a croissant, a jar of jam, small pack of cookies) I could feed my 2+1 family for a few days.

A small cup of coffee costs as much as a homemade dinner in itself either.

I'm not saying you shouldn't eat out. I'm saying these parasites are milking us dry.

The government benefits here consider 200€ on groceries a month (<7€ a day) to be the absolute minimum they can give to ensure living in dignity. Now, I personally can take some cuts here and there (especially since they consider daily portions of meat essential) to save a few bucks, but even if you somehow get all your food out of dumpsters, you cannot save more than those 7€ from this.

That's not nothing, a lot of people would (and do) consider cutting back on food to save for other stuff. But it would take 50 years to save for a house, if real estate didn't outpace inflation. Cutting back on food can help if you live well above your means, but if you are barely surviving, it won't make you rich any time soon, just gives you money to spend on things to replace the enjoyment of an easy full belly.

hey, I did that too!

just give it five or so years. and tons of overtime. and a partner who works in tech who bought pre-covid and then sold at covid prices so you could buy a bigger house together also at covid prices. and then buy at the top of your budget because you keep getting outbid

those home made meals and coffee were definitely the biggest factor!

In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the price of the average US home was $11,000.00