Homes Cost Too Much! Everything Costs Too Much!

[MineralMan]

15. There are still young families buying houses. Plenty of them.

And houses are available for middle income people everywhere. Just not a big-ass new house. A young couple with two young children bought the house we sold. It was their first house. We bought a different place for not a lot more money than we sold for. We're retirement age, so we bought in a development that takes care of exterior maintenance so I don't have to shovel snow and mow lawns. It would also be fine for a young family with decent jobs, but you wouldn't have to be rich to buy either one. Just doing OK.

If you read my entire post, you'll see that it's sort of tongue-in-cheek. Houses have always been too expensive, according to some. My point was that they're about the same as everything else, really. People are still buying houses, and cars, and all that other stuff. In the past they did to, if they could afford to. That never changes.

To buy a house, you've always had to have a pretty good job. You did back then, and you still do.