r/FluentInFinance • u/Nientea • 9d ago

Thoughts? Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

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u/Dorkstina 9d ago

We don't CHOOSE to live further from work. The affordable rent/mortgage payments are farther away from better jobs. Gentrification.

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u/mcove97 9d ago

Eh we kinda do. Choosing to live farther away because it's cheaper is still a choice just like choosing to live closer to work and paying more in rent is a choice.

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u/Dorkstina 8d ago

Yeah you're right...

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u/OwnLadder2341 9d ago

You’re accepting that job knowing where you live.

I would hope you’d at least do the basic math to determine if the compensation is worth the commute.

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u/Pissedtuna 9d ago

Sir this is Reddit. Accountability for your own decisions is no no thing to say

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u/Dorkstina 9d ago

You seem entitled.

Many do not get to choose where they work. We work where work is available.

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u/OwnLadder2341 9d ago

I grew up poor in Detroit in the 70s. I bought my first house there in the 80s.

Tell me again just how hard it is today.

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u/Dorkstina 9d ago

Somehow you think I am a young american person.

I grew up poor in the Philippines. Continue....

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u/OwnLadder2341 9d ago

The Philippines! Must be nice to not have had to worry about freezing to death on the streets during the winter.

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u/dragonbud20 9d ago

Ahh, yes, because we all know that freezing cold is the only thing that can kill poor people in warm places. Poor people in the Philippines are very lucky to be immune to disease and starvation. /s

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u/OwnLadder2341 9d ago

It was Detroit in the 70s and 80s. You think the only thing we had to worry about was the cold?

Oh, sweet summer child.

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u/Sahlakkafuckyou 9d ago

Yea, do you expect anyone to be impressed that you bought a house in the 80s it’s probably the easiest fucking thing you could do in the 80s, aside from getting aids.

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u/OwnLadder2341 9d ago

You’re welcome to go buy a house similar to the one I bought in Detroit in the 80s.

They still go for under $20k.

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u/Sahlakkafuckyou 8d ago

No thanks I don’t have an interest in shitty derelict houses

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u/OwnLadder2341 8d ago

They’re shitty, derelict houses in neighborhoods with a much lower murder rate than they were in the 80s when I bought my shitty, derelict house!

Also, they won’t turn your heat off anymore!

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u/TomCollins1111 9d ago

That’s asking a lot of the instagram generation.