• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    Try being a couple then. Your parents couldn’t afford a house on their own either.

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      9 months ago

      Single-income households aren’t some long lost relic of the ages. Plenty of people have living parents that prospered during that time.

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        9 months ago

        I bought in 2005-ish. Even though I had a decent job, I wouldn’t have been offered a mortgage big enough to afford anything describable as a house on my own.

        I can’t imagine much has changed since then, and it wasn’t a new thing. Women weren’t seen as stay at home housewives in 2000.

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      9 months ago

      Huh? Very common in my parent’s band to have been single income.

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      9 months ago

      My father was the only one who worked, in a trade. My mother just stayed home, she had no income. I do the same trade as he did, my money does not go as far. I’m almost 40 and can’t afford a house. My father bought one with the same job as me when he was 28. Oh and I took your shit advice anyway and have a SO and it’s still out of reach.