return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoGoldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right nowfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down17
arrow-up1309arrow-down1external-linkGoldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right nowfortune.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareMelkath@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·9 months agoYup. About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died…
minus-squareplz1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 months ago…fuck…that’s dark. Sorry things swung that way for your family.
minus-squareMelkath@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months agoI lean on the word “about”. He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials. Ya, still dark AF. And I also don’t think its a rare family story.
Been 16 years already?
Yup.
About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died…
…fuck…that’s dark. Sorry things swung that way for your family.
I lean on the word “about”.
He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials.
Ya, still dark AF. And I also don’t think its a rare family story.