> even if that means you have to live like a fucking bum for few years to save up the money this is always boomer advice. it presumes at base level that all one need do is make any amount of effort to save money and a significant amount will steadily accumulate in your accounts. to millennials and younger this advice seems insane, because we live in a reality where saving of that sort; buying cheaper food, not eating out, staying in on the weekends, etc; will never ever accumulate a significant amount of funds that can be used for something. the straight fact is that if all you do on a normal salary paying a normal rent is stay in eating rice and beans and saving money, due to housing inflation, at the end of that year you'll be further away from owning a home than you were at the beginning. that's the horrifying reality.
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