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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    If you include maintenance and taxes, it actually sold for less than the same amount of money invested in an index fund.

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      2 years ago

      That’s kind of silly comparison, as that money wouldn’t have been available to invest if it hadn’t been spent on a home. It would have been spent on rent instead.

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Housing can’t be an investment (i.e. exponential growth above inflation) AND an affordable place for people to live for future generations. This mentality is absolutely brain-dead.