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TakenOverByBots t1_j2bvzub wrote

Reply to comment by taguscove in This fight near Shawmut Station doesn’t bode well for easing Boston’s housing shortage - The Boston Globe by soxandpatriots1

If we could afford to buy in Boston don't you think we would? That's the whole point of why we need more housing.

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9Z7EErh9Et0y0Yjt98A4 t1_j2dt2t5 wrote

Maybe you should have thought of that before being born not rich.

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TakenOverByBots t1_j2dyy0x wrote

I kick myself for this foolish mistake every day.

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3720-To-One t1_j2e3t8t wrote

I kick myself for not being born 5 years sooner, so I would have been in prime position to buy real estate in 2008-2009.

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TakenOverByBots t1_j2e4zyb wrote

I was in my late 20s and had the money, I even took a homebuying course..and yet was afraid to pull the trigger. It's tough when you're single and don't have any family to counsel you either....I feel like if I had had even one person to ask "hey, is this a good idea?", I would have done it. Sadly, no reddit to ask back then either. It sucks that I STILL don't have anyone to talk to about this but reddit.

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3720-To-One t1_j2e7xb9 wrote

To be fair, sounds better than graduating college and starting your adult working life in the worst recession since the Great Depression

That was NOT fun trying to start a career back then.

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