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My aunt and uncle have a giant house on a huge piece of property. My mom reminded me the other day, they built that house when they were 36. Blew my mind.
My parents bought a house for 75k in 1985. My nan put down 35k, and they lived in the MIL suite of the house for the summers for 3 years, and rented the main house for 5k a season, and my dad paid the last 25k out of his salary.
That house is worth 3.5 million now. Cheapest property ive seen go to market in my town was 950k and that was a literal 2 room beach shack with the only shower being outdoors.
Holy shit