Not sure if this is just ingrained "American Dream" mentality but I want to get away from landlords and buy my own house. Partly this is so I can have my own space to work on my own projects, be messy, grow weed, walk around naked, etc. Lately this is looking like a real possibility since I've paid off my college debt and started saving money for a down payment. I'm also expecting house prices to fall in the next year as the economy implodes.

Despite all that, housing is still really expensive where I live and I probably wouldn't be able to afford a house without a partner or a roommate paying part of the mortgage. My romantic prospects aren't looking too good and I really don't want to be a landlord. And I don't know how I would feel buying a foreclosure. Not to mention I'd be locked into a 30 year mortgage that won't be paid off until after climate change has forced us all to migrate to Nunavut.

Tell me chapos, what's the moral thing to do here? Should I keep renting? Buy a house and try to be an "ethical" landlord? Move in with the next woman I meet after the 2nd date? Go join a commune/cult?

  • TelestialBeing [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Marx liked to gamble his money away on the stock market.

    Wait, so Marx was an OG WSB poster? This... actually makes a a ton of sense, now that I think about it.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Assuming he lost money, TIL I could be a reincarnation of Karl Marx.

      • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        He probably did. He apparently made like £400 in one instance, which is something like $50,000 today. Of course he was still broke for most of the rest of his life lmao