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Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoWhat’s the value of your parents their house and how many siblings do you have.
You’re pretty fucked being American in that situation.
dryfter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No clue what my parents’ house could be worth, they’re still living in it too. I do know they paid something like $30,000 for it in the 70’s and it might be worth 5-10x more than that now – if not more due to inflation. Cars were also $5000 or so then, and now the average price of a car is $30k-$50k on the low end.
Due to…several traumatic issues and for my own mental health…living with them isn’t an option and now that I’m on SSDI I can’t really take any of their money or it messes with my SSDI and I went through too much for too long to do anything to risk it within my control (government shenanigans these days might leave me without income and a home but that’s out of my control now). I have one sibling who has a family of their own much like how it was when we were kids but they are struggling to make ends meet in this economy too.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Why do they stay in USA then. There are plenty of countries where one can earn a better net worth.
USA is an immigrant country. Non of you are natives. Do what your ancestors did. Leave.
dryfter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If there is a country that will take me I’d go in a heartbeat. But I am unable to work and don’t have the financial means to just up and move. The ones that do have the ability to do that are either doing that already or are in the process of destroying the US.