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Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

atlanta, georgia

Indianapolis
Chicago (is more reasonable than here)
Nashville (is more reasonable than here)

I mean...name a city that isn't New York, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco. Basically. You might scoff at the idea of living in Louisville, KY or Topeka, but guess what? These are cities with job markets and more affordable living.

Bloomington, Indiana. Major university community with lots of good jobs. Beautiful houses. But you're probably turning up your nose right now.

You keep listing cities but not jobs. The vast majority of jobs in NYC, DC, SF don’t translate to those cities — except maybe commodities trading in Chicago?

I’m an economist at HUD — what should I do in Indiana?

Raleigh isn’t bad, but it’s not that much cheaper but job market is a lot thinner

you are a clueless 20 something. Mature and get a freaking clue

I am asking for your concrete recommendations, and your response is insults?

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Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

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Anonymous wrote:I think all of us would concede that things are more expensive and that in most industries wages haven’t kept up. But you have to concede that you want to buy a $1 million dollars home and are complaining that your inability to do that is because life is so much harder today. I would say that if you wanted to buy. $300,000 home and couldn’t, I would agree. But your argument fails because your $1 m home is just out of reach for the majority of people regardless of age or generation. You are not unable to buy that because of your age or wage alone. That is an extremely expensive home.

Uh, we just bought a $1.1M shack which the prior owners bought for $250k in 1999.

It’s not an extremely expensive or fancy house. It’s just a house with ok schools and ok commute.

It isn’t like Millenials are saying ‘I want a $1M house’, they just want an ok house in an ok neighborhood.

I think OP said he needs a down payment of $200000. I am basing the million on that. If he says I am wrong, then fine but it was his number.

Well yeah, he is saying $1M — b/c that’s what ok houses with less than a 1 hr commute tend to cost.

This is what reveals your entitlement. If you want new and fancy for less than a million, you have to commute. If you are ok with older, you can have a shorter commute. This isn’t a challenge that only millennials face. The fact that you think so is more evidence that you have absolutely no perspective. The majority of people make that choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I think all of us would concede that things are more expensive and that in most industries wages haven’t kept up. But you have to concede that you want to buy a $1 million dollars home and are complaining that your inability to do that is because life is so much harder today. I would say that if you wanted to buy. $300,000 home and couldn’t, I would agree. But your argument fails because your $1 m home is just out of reach for the majority of people regardless of age or generation. You are not unable to buy that because of your age or wage alone. That is an extremely expensive home.

Uh, we just bought a $1.1M shack which the prior owners bought for $250k in 1999.

It’s not an extremely expensive or fancy house. It’s just a house with ok schools and ok commute.

It isn’t like Millenials are saying ‘I want a $1M house’, they just want an ok house in an ok neighborhood.

I think OP said he needs a down payment of $200000. I am basing the million on that. If he says I am wrong, then fine but it was his number.

Well yeah, he is saying $1M — b/c that’s what ok houses with less than a 1 hr commute tend to cost.

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Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

atlanta, georgia

Indianapolis
Chicago (is more reasonable than here)
Nashville (is more reasonable than here)

I mean...name a city that isn't New York, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco. Basically. You might scoff at the idea of living in Louisville, KY or Topeka, but guess what? These are cities with job markets and more affordable living.

Bloomington, Indiana. Major university community with lots of good jobs. Beautiful houses. But you're probably turning up your nose right now.

You keep listing cities but not jobs. The vast majority of jobs in NYC, DC, SF don’t translate to those cities — except maybe commodities trading in Chicago?

I’m an economist at HUD — what should I do in Indiana?

Raleigh isn’t bad, but it’s not that much cheaper but job market is a lot thinner

you are a clueless 20 something. Mature and get a freaking clue

I am asking for your concrete recommendations, and your response is insults?

Anonymous wrote:Millenials is such a broad range that some on the older end of the spectrum are starting to become biglaw partners while those on the younger end are probably still in grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

atlanta, georgia

Indianapolis
Chicago (is more reasonable than here)
Nashville (is more reasonable than here)

I mean...name a city that isn't New York, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco. Basically. You might scoff at the idea of living in Louisville, KY or Topeka, but guess what? These are cities with job markets and more affordable living.

Bloomington, Indiana. Major university community with lots of good jobs. Beautiful houses. But you're probably turning up your nose right now.

You keep listing cities but not jobs. The vast majority of jobs in NYC, DC, SF don’t translate to those cities — except maybe commodities trading in Chicago?

I’m an economist at HUD — what should I do in Indiana?

Raleigh isn’t bad, but it’s not that much cheaper but job market is a lot thinner

you are a clueless 20 something. Mature and get a freaking clue

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

atlanta, georgia

Indianapolis
Chicago (is more reasonable than here)
Nashville (is more reasonable than here)

I mean...name a city that isn't New York, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco. Basically. You might scoff at the idea of living in Louisville, KY or Topeka, but guess what? These are cities with job markets and more affordable living.

Bloomington, Indiana. Major university community with lots of good jobs. Beautiful houses. But you're probably turning up your nose right now.

You keep listing cities but not jobs. The vast majority of jobs in NYC, DC, SF don’t translate to those cities — except maybe commodities trading in Chicago?

I’m an economist at HUD — what should I do in Indiana?

Raleigh isn’t bad, but it’s not that much cheaper but job market is a lot thinner

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Anonymous wrote:I think all of us would concede that things are more expensive and that in most industries wages haven’t kept up. But you have to concede that you want to buy a $1 million dollars home and are complaining that your inability to do that is because life is so much harder today. I would say that if you wanted to buy. $300,000 home and couldn’t, I would agree. But your argument fails because your $1 m home is just out of reach for the majority of people regardless of age or generation. You are not unable to buy that because of your age or wage alone. That is an extremely expensive home.

Uh, we just bought a $1.1M shack which the prior owners bought for $250k in 1999.

It’s not an extremely expensive or fancy house. It’s just a house with ok schools and ok commute.

It isn’t like Millenials are saying ‘I want a $1M house’, they just want an ok house in an ok neighborhood.

I think OP said he needs a down payment of $200000. I am basing the million on that. If he says I am wrong, then fine but it was his number.

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Anonymous wrote:$500-1k house for a millennial. . . no wonder you all are drowning in debt. Move somewhere you can afford. Period.

So which metro has good jobs and cheap housing?

atlanta, georgia

Indianapolis
Chicago (is more reasonable than here)
Nashville (is more reasonable than here)

I mean...name a city that isn't New York, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco. Basically. You might scoff at the idea of living in Louisville, KY or Topeka, but guess what? These are cities with job markets and more affordable living.

Bloomington, Indiana. Major university community with lots of good jobs. Beautiful houses. But you're probably turning up your nose right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I think all of us would concede that things are more expensive and that in most industries wages haven’t kept up. But you have to concede that you want to buy a $1 million dollars home and are complaining that your inability to do that is because life is so much harder today. I would say that if you wanted to buy. $300,000 home and couldn’t, I would agree. But your argument fails because your $1 m home is just out of reach for the majority of people regardless of age or generation. You are not unable to buy that because of your age or wage alone. That is an extremely expensive home.

Uh, we just bought a $1.1M shack which the prior owners bought for $250k in 1999.

It’s not an extremely expensive or fancy house. It’s just a house with ok schools and ok commute.

It isn’t like Millenials are saying ‘I want a $1M house’, they just want an ok house in an ok neighborhood.

Anonymous wrote:I think all of us would concede that things are more expensive and that in most industries wages haven’t kept up. But you have to concede that you want to buy a $1 million dollars home and are complaining that your inability to do that is because life is so much harder today. I would say that if you wanted to buy. $300,000 home and couldn’t, I would agree. But your argument fails because your $1 m home is just out of reach for the majority of people regardless of age or generation. You are not unable to buy that because of your age or wage alone. That is an extremely expensive home.