I come from nothing. No parents, no real family, no assurance. What happened to my family? Lots of premature deaths, overdoses, repeating generational issues, the whole poverty experience. I was the sole survivor of my original family by 12. That made life very difficult as one would imagine, but I have somehow managed to get my life in order all these years later. With barely a high school education and no degrees I have worked my way into a position that pays me what I believed to be a decent living wage without requiring me to break my back. Yes, I deal with some unpaid on-call bullshit and the likes but I am able to afford my own place, a car and food in my stomach. For a long time that was a pipe dream.
Now I’m pushing 30 and the housing market is actually insane. I work with a lot of older people that have no idea just how bad it really is because they all bought their homes decades ago. My rent isn’t exactly cheap but mortgages today even in my middle of nowhere town are completely out of the question and all I hear is that it’s going to get worse? I feel as though I’ve capped my life progress despite coming so far. It’s a miserable feeling and older folks just tell me I need to “cut back” more. On what?