Opinion: 'My family and I are no closer to owning a home, after years of trying'...
LIKE MOST MILLENNIALS, I spent a lot of my formative years in front of the TV. This was where I developed most of my concepts around life and a highly irrational fear of the Bermuda Triangle.
This lifestyle was portrayed as the basic standard, at the time, because it covered the bare essentials. It was almost seen as the least appealing option. And yet it is now unattainable. The current housing crisis has locked this generation out of our most basic necessities and will impact every generation that comes after.I wrote an article here at the end of 2020, musing about the strange year that had just passed and what the next year might hold.
This is despite the fact that we had 18 months of savings under our belt and had paid rent for the eight years prior. We had to wait for our industries to reopen, and it was the second half of the year before things began to settle. Our eldest daughter started sixth class and we were starting to look towards secondary. The primary school she was in was a feeder for a local community secondary just up the road.
Our options were so limited. We had always planned on buying in the catchment area anyway, but we had no way to speed up the mortgage process. All of her friends started texting as soon as they got home from school and saw their acceptance letters, so she immediately knew something was wrong. We moved out the week before Christmas, which was chaotically brilliant. Although renting a property was not in our plan, it was the most amazing opportunity and has given us all some much-needed space.
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