Over half of Americans say they're not even close to financial freedom - eviltoast
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      Puget Sound area, a bit north of Seattle.

      For a home purchased in the last 3 years, I got a pretty good deal. The floor on rent for a shitty one bed apartment in my city is $1200/month.

      It’s also worth noting that the $3350 is my PITI. My strict mortgage is $2875, the rest is property tax to escrow and mortgage insurance.

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      I pay less than 1/3 of that for my mortgage on a bigger house with a large yard. But we did close on it at a much better time last decade, and it’s about twice as valuable now. I would never consider something so ridiculously expensive that the mortgage could be 3k/mo.

      Fortunately for my wallet, I don’t like big city life and the rural real estate is much cheaper.

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      He lives in a $600,000 house. Probably more.

      Edit: he says it’s a $560k house lol