People Share Their Hot Takes on Money That Make Us Question Our Financial Reality

I’m kind of on the fence about this next post. It’s absolutely true that home prices have gotten crazy in recent years; I’m super glad I got my place before the pandemic hit and made the prices even crazier still. The recent past and the present have been pretty terrible times to try to buy a house.

On the other hand, the writer says that their rent is more than their parent’s mortgage. On a $200,000 house, the mortgage would likely be somewhere between a thousand and thirteen hundred dollars. It’s easy to find places where rent costs more than that, but it’s also possible to find places where rent costs less than that, especially if you’re not living in the heart of a big city.