• elephantium@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Where did you live before you bought your house?

    Is that approach available to 40-something single parents working at McDonald’s?

    • Skelectrician@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      I lived in a basement suite, followed by a dump of an old house, before I found a slightly less dumpy old house to purchase in a rural area that most city folk would absolutely hate. This was all before the age of 20. Sold my old house about 7 or 8 years later to a younger man who had a very similar starting plan.

      Now I have a 5 bedroom house on two acres. It’s not in some heavily populated area, it’s out in the country and it’s affordable.

      Anyway, if you’re a single parent over 40 working at McDonald’s, you’ve made far too many bad decisions in life for me to be of any help.