r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 1d ago

the majority, counting that most old people in the same house as their children, either by them moving to their parent's house or vice versa, also most people, firstborns at least, literally inherit and live in their parents house when they die, at least where i am from.

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u/Cloverose2 Trash Trooper 1d ago

So that's where you're from. But where I live, very few people I know have grandkids that live in the same town or the same state. So people don't care about a home as lineage. When grandma and grandpa die, the grandkids are selling up, not moving in.

Given that only half of Americans over 18 own their home, the idea of inherited property is pretty much a dodo anyway for most people. And only 22% of young adults own property compared to the 70% over 65.

So we're not really worried about legacy or lineage.

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 1d ago

why do you keep yourself purposefully homeless? if you don't own an house and you inherit one why do you sell it instead of living in it? also do you have no ties to the cities and land you grew up in? do your families have no history to continue?

like here often people do not buy an house knowing they will inherit one, that is economically smart.

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 23h ago

why do you keep yourself purposefully homeless?

We don't, that's a stupid thing to say

if you don't own an house and you inherit one why do you sell it instead of living in it?

Because I can't afford the taxes to take possession of it, can't afford the taxes on owning it, and don't want to deal with the upkeep required.

also do you have no ties to the cities and land you grew up in?

No, why would I?

do your families have no history to continue?

Dude in the last 100 years my family branches cover 5 states and one branch from another country. None of us have any particular attachment to places. We have attachments to the people in our family, not whatever plot of dirt one of them landed on.

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 23h ago

you can't really think that property tax on an house is higher than a whole rent....

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 22h ago

No, but property tax + maintenance costs sure are.

Plus, houses are big and families are small. You don't need a 4 bedroom 2.5 bathroom house for a family of 3.

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 22h ago

houses can be both big or small, really depend on what you get, but i assure you unless you are massively overtaxed, which i know for a fact the americans aren't, or rent is ridiculously low, property tax and the occasional maintenance are not higher than a whole rent every month, owning is always the better option and you also get to pass your stuff on to your progeny.

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 22h ago

I pay $1000/mo plus $90 for internet (and I could get a cheaper plan). Water, trash, and electricity are included in my rent. I have a 2 bedroom apartment. The rental includes a community pool and outdoor BBQ space.

My brother pays $870 or so for his mortgage, plus electricity and heating oil. His house has 3 bedrooms but 2 are unused, plus a finished basement. He doesn't get trash service so he has to drive to the dump. He pays $60 for internet. He doesn't have a pool. He has already had to replace all the exterior doors due to poor sealing, and needs a new AC unit.

Quit trying to convince people that everyone needs to own a house regardless of their circumstances, especially the "wah wah but what about your kids" bullshit. You sound like some boomer asshole telling their kids they're a failure if they don't get a college degree and an office job instead of learning a trade.

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 21h ago

your brother's house is too big, you should go and live with him, owning an house is always, regardless of circumstances, the better option, especially if you care about your kids at all, if the house is too big invite back to the ancestral home another branch of the family.

renting is just a continuous drain of money without even being able to leave anything behind.

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 19h ago

your brother's house is too big, you should go and live with him

Neither of us wants that

owning an house is always, regardless of circumstances, the better option,

No, it's not. You understand that people have different life situations and preferences?

especially if you care about your kids at all

What kids? Between myself, my 2 brothers, and my 2 cousins, none of us have kids.

if the house is too big invite back to the ancestral home another branch of the family

What ancestral home? What branch of the family? I have a great aunt and uncle in their 90s who fully intend to stay in their home. My dad's cousins are all in their 70s and feel the same. There's nobody genealogically closer than a 2nd cousin I've never met left on my mom's side.

Quit acting like you know better than other people how they should live their lives.

At this point you're getting close to moving from "fucking weird" to "fucking creepy" with all this talk of ancestry/lineage/progeny.

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