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We’re the Twentysomething Couple Who Can Mysteriously Afford to Buy a House
I guess we’re just lucky!
Hi, I’m Peter, and this is my wife, Dana. We’re the good-looking White couple who suspiciously bought a house despite being the age when most people are struggling to pay rent. Yet here we are, fresh-faced and curiously home all day, moving into a house that’s bigger than anything you’ll be able to afford your entire life.
Not the house that’s on the property. We’re tearing that down to build an even larger structure. If that isn’t galling enough, we insist on calling the new place our “starter home,” as though it’s only a stepping-stone to someplace even more expensive we’ll purchase far in the future. Like when we’re in our thirties.
Maybe you remember when you were our age, living in a cramped apartment with roommates, everyone working entry-level jobs that barely paid above minimum wage. How romantic that must’ve been! It sounds like fun, because we never did it.
How can we pay for this place when we’re only a few years out of college? Maybe you think we landed lucrative jobs as soon as we graduated. Please. We’re not corporate robots. We took a year off to bum around Europe, paying for hotels and restaurants most people work a lifetime to afford. Like total…
