Litany Against Consumerism
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Never gonna afford anything worth saving for so might as well spend each paycheque.
Wrong. I saved up for a house deposit and bought one a couple of years.
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Clever. For me simply not being interested in buying stuff is sufficient.
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Wrong. I saved up for a house deposit and bought one a couple of years.
Yeah the median house price is $1M where I am.
No bank would ever give me a mortgage that high on a single income, and no amount that I can save would ever cover the non-stop increase of property prices year on year.
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it would be nice if I got to keep money I didnt spend, but it gets taken from me anyway, so why not buy another plushie
You could just save money that doesn't get arbitrarily taken from you.
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…I gave into steam this time
At least I kept it under 100 this time ..
Sometimes, you gotta live your life and do some purchasing.
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Yeah the median house price is $1M where I am.
No bank would ever give me a mortgage that high on a single income, and no amount that I can save would ever cover the non-stop increase of property prices year on year.
Don't buy a median house or move somewhere else then.
Here I often hear of people move to London "for the jobs" complaining they can't afford a house and they are working retail. Just move, you can get a retail job anywhere.
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Don't buy a median house or move somewhere else then.
Here I often hear of people move to London "for the jobs" complaining they can't afford a house and they are working retail. Just move, you can get a retail job anywhere.
So what live a 3 hour drive from my workplace?
A retail job won’t afford me a bloody house and there’s like 4 cities in the whole country that you might find a job in.
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So what live a 3 hour drive from my workplace?
A retail job won’t afford me a bloody house and there’s like 4 cities in the whole country that you might find a job in.
I earn about the same amount a retail job would pay, I just have WFH. If I lost WFH which I might be then those retail jobs start to look tempting because a commute of 15 mins walking a day is better than 5 hours on trains and ferries.
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I earn about the same amount a retail job would pay, I just have WFH. If I lost WFH which I might be then those retail jobs start to look tempting because a commute of 15 mins walking a day is better than 5 hours on trains and ferries.
Honestly it sounds like you’re in Europe somewhere?
I’m in Australia, we have no population to support living outside of the few cities that you cannot afford to live in unless you live hours out of the city via P/T or car.
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Me when steam sales
wrote last edited by [email protected]Me when steam sales from like 2010-2016. Since then, all the good old stuff I bought a decade ago and all the good new stuff still costs more than I could pay for it elsewhere.
