trying to buy a house and it’s making me want to puke all day long
You basically have to beg financial institutions for the opportunity to have them own your life forever… seems like a horrible idea until you consider the fact that the alternative is to slowly buy your landlords house for them while you can’t even have like, a cat. I just really don’t want to give another dollar to a landlord as long as I live.
Mind you, the bank will throw you out on the street just as fast as a landlord if you can’t make repayments. I’ve got a thing about being completely honest with my kids, and I was just thinking, the ability to look your children in the eye and tell them in total honesty that our home is ours to keep forever, that there is no possible way we could one day be made to leave by some larger authority – that’s a rare, rare thing isn’t it? How many people can realistically say that to young kids? Everyone I know who’s paid off their mortgage is retired and has worked full time for decades to get there – my mum is still paying hers off despite being in full time work since she was 17.
It seems like it should be a pretty standard, unremarkable thing to be able to promise a kid, but it’s actually the sort of security only a tiny percent of the richest people ever get to experience. It may not make them ‘happy’, but it’s no mystery where they get their confidence and sense of entitlement from.