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Christopher Renner's avatar

The childless couple with the $3200 mortgage jumped out at me, since that's almost exactly what we pay for our 1800 sqft detached house 3 miles outside the Beltway in Northern Virginia.

If they're paying that much in Utah, I'm inclined to think that 1) no one ever told them "house poor" was a thing and/or 2) there's something seriously wrong with the market for starter homes.

Aaron M. Renn's avatar

Home prices in Utah have gone up a lot.

Tom's avatar

Brief side note: my childhood was in the nineties and oughts, I was the older of two, the house I grew up in was about two thousand square feet of living space, and that was plenty of room.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes I coveted the larger houses some of my friends had, and my family couldn't exactly entertain, but it's very doable.

Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

The majority of children in Vienna are Muslim. Europe has been conquered from within. Natives can't afford to have kids because they pay taxes that allow foreigners to have more children.

Tom's avatar

Err...no. You're putting the cart before the horse. Europe's below-replacement birthrate is the reason for the immigration, not the other way around.