House expensive and job no pay enough.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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People aren't paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.
Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.
The worst part is that I am getting paid a salary I could have only dreamed about years ago, and yet I still can't afford anything with how drastically everything went up in price.
Wages in general have gone up a little bit, but it's crazy to me that I'm earning more than 5x as much as I used to 15 years ago and feel like my buying power has not noticeably improved at all. I'm still stuck living in crappy apartments because that is all I can afford.
Exactly! My partner and I together make over $100,000 a year and finally we are just barely comfortable. All of our bills get paid and even though the budget is tight, we still have a little money and decent credit. I could put a $1,000 guitar on credit and pay that off no problem, but there's no way we could get a house.
Maybe if our wages doubled then we could find something further out in the sticks. Hopefully by that time more companies allow full remote work because I already lose an hour or more a day traveling.
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It's a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn't care
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I know no one really asked this question.
- Average house price in Q1 2025 was $500,000.
- $100k down at 6.5% with great credit and monthly payments of $3180 for 30yrs.
How many people can say they will have a job that pays that well for 30 yrs?
$100k down
Fucking LMAO
"Yeah, before you buy, we want an amount of money you will never have at any one point in your entire life before we consider thinking about suggesting a mortgage to you"
Oh....you poor bastard. Now you can pay the PMI and your morrgage will be around $4400 a month. You can save up $15-20k and refi when rates go down.
Welcome to renting for ever.
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Unless you live near a major city. Then you double the price of housing.
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Probably the same reason megacorporatins are turning in record profit, year over year, and a very few people have increased their income by several billions of dollars, but that's just a guess. 💁
Don't forget about the corporations that are buying as many houses a quick as possible (faster than a person who will have a mortgage can) and at a higher price than what a person can/will pay becaue they are using them as investments.
Absolutely!
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oh we know why, it’s not a mystery to anyone who talks to the average american worker. we are criminally underpaid for our labor and it gets worse the younger the generation is. millennials are more poor than their parents’ generation, and gen z will likely end up poorer than millennials.
Homes are fucking expensive. I couldn't afford to buy a house in most markets at current prices. I have no idea how people are able to buy homes today.
Even my neighbor down the street...1st home for him, wife, and 2 year old kid. He tried to sell because he didn't understand how property taxes worked. The previous owner of 30 years payed 1.5K a year. He bought the home and was hit with a 15K tax bill. He couldn't afford it and thought his bill would also be 1.5K. The closing agent and real estate agent didn't explain anything to him. They were just happy to collect commission and fees on a very expensive house.
Ah, a Californian
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because the previous generation were all robber barons that drained the world for their personal gain at the expense of the children they insisted on having.
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Two posts down my feed is this:
Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
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A 7% interest rate doesn’t help
We bought in 2020 and have a 2.875% rate on our mortgage. We only put 10% down and had PMI but the broker was all, "you can refinance to get rid of that".
I asked him when in the world we'd ever be able to refinance at or below that rate? He had nothing to say to that.
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I had two houses at that interest rate in the 2000’s. The wage to house price was still reasonable then. Made $40k, paid $88k for a 3/2 in middle class suburban Tampa. I’m making 30% more now but houses are 400% more.
While true, I would point out that the low mortgage rates that increased housing prices
low mortgage rates permit people to borrow more and tends to drive up prices
in the decade-and-a-half before 2022 was unusual for the US. Prior to about 2008, interest rates were at or higher than they are today.
Here's a graph of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Here's the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. This measures same-home prices
that it, it attempts to factor out changes in types of home being built, so new homes being larger won't drive it up.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPISA
It's not adjusted for inflation, though.
Here's an inflation-adjusted graph:
https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-vs-inflation/
Between about 2011 and 2022, the real price of a given house rose rapidly in a low mortgage rate environment. In 2022, mortgage rates returned to something that's more historically-normal.
I expect that to sell a house in this environment, a homeowner will probably have to cut what they're asking.
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Not on top of the wild overvaluation.
Been unable to afford a house since I first tried avocado toast circa 2008
My household income is well above the median in my area. Besides a bit of student loans, I have no other debt. I'm doing pretty well compared to most people my age, financially.
I still needed an FHA and down payment assistance to squeak into the cheapest house on the market that wasn't a trailer
I know a few millennial homeowners, and almost every one falls into one of two categories: they were gifted the home (or down payment) from a family member; or they married a Gen-X doctor in 2007 and bought right after the market crashed in 2008 and they've watched their home value quadruple since then.
That's it. Have family that's well-off enough, or marry someone that had money at the right time to exploit a financial disaster.
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I fucking wonder. Maybe I can ask Grok.
Grok: "It's the Joos. Heil Hitler!"
So, after last week, I guess that’s heil Grok?
$$$$?!?
This is a really, really stupid question.
Wages didn't increase at the rate of inflation for like 80 years. The USA is now a shithole country in general and emigration out has reached all time highs, kids don't want to buy homes here. All of the overseas investors looking to purchase US properties no longer trust in the USA due to volatility due to an actual dictatorship forming and heavy fines and tariffs being put in place by countries on either side of the issue.
I could go on.
capitalism. there. article done.
Because of the increasing gap between wages and property values?
"Holding off"? No, I can't afford it. I'd love to own a home but my wage doesn't keep up with inflation.
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Because home ownership is increasingly becoming a trap? Gee, lemme save up a high 5 digit sum of money over the course of a decade so i can afford to BUY IN to a ridiculous sum of debt that, even if its paid off eventually, will be taken away to cover medical debt in old age! All to prop up infinite growth in property values to prop up a stock market.
Because those who make the rules don't want you to own shit.
Because the only part of the economy doing well is home values
Jesus fuckin christ are these people seriously asking that question??
They will never acknowledge it unless they are made to
Because the common citizens will have more problems than buying a house after the Orange Goblin and his fellow criminals started to irrevocably dismantle the nation forever? 🤔
I love it when a headline makes me audibly laugh, thought this was the onion for a second
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