• LinkedinLenin [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Someone paying $800 a month for their rent is gonna have paid $470,400 by the time they retire. That’s like two fucking mortgages for the “service” of not being homeless.

      It’s just restructured feudalism at this point. We’ve abstracted away the direct relationship between landlord and serf, but over half our labor is still going to some third party doing none of the work.

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      I’m actually seriously considering selling and going back to renting to get my flexibility back. I really despise being tied down to physical location, and the constant threat of having to move for a different job makes it even worse.

      Probably won’t sell in the current market, but when it makes a bit more sense.

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          It’s not that I necessarily want to. Jobs just usually end one way or the other after a while. In my experience, renting really opens up the job market. Move wherever the new job is. That’s a lot harder when you own.

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              Yeah, I guess everyone has different priorities. I just refuse to let myself or my family live in a crappy situation because I want to stay in a specific location. I often see people living in poverty because they refuse to leave a place to take a job elsewhere. Doesn’t make sense to me, but everyone has their own life.

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                People don’t live in poverty “because they refuse to move”

                They live in poverty because they are stuck there, and moving to somewhere else is incredibly expensive and difficult

                Your worldview is utterly detached from the reality of the common person

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                  Not sure how that’s “detached from reality.”

                  I’ve moved a ton. It has never cost me anything other than the cost of renting a moving truck and sore legs for a few days. Certainly beats living in a place with no job or some random low-paying job.

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                Yeah I mean, I came from a very poor region and it was hard to move for me, but it was made easier because my family was beginning to cut me off for being queer anyway and I had the privilege of WFH too. I know lots of people who’d move out of their region if not for their family supporting them in some way they can’t get elsewhere (or they don’t think so, atleast).

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              I’m the same as you, but I recognise that I had the privilege of being born in the capital of a very centralised country so there’s little reason for me to move to better my lot. If I’d grown up in a deprived former mining town up north I’d probably have been long gone as soon as I could.

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        As someone who had to move 5 times I four years due to landlords and am now in my seventh glorious year in my own flat, that sounds mental.

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          What would you do if you lost your job and couldn’t find anything in your current location?

          In the current high-interest market I’d probably rent out the property and rent something else wherever the job is located. But then you have to be willing to be a landlord. Some people aren’t.

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            As I said to someone else Futher down, I recognise that I’m privileged to have been born and live near the capital of a very centralised country so I never really need to worry about moving for work as I’m already where the highest wages are. I just got so miserable as a renter moving so much and never feeling like I had an actual home I couldn’t go back to it now I’m settled.

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              Got it. That’s just not the situation of most people. They have to move for a job or live in a terrible situation. I’d move in an instant rather than live in crap.