Affordability for Singles

[greensd]

Just for the record, I more or less agree with golfgal, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I made some bad choices… if only I could go back and slap some sense into my 19-year-old self! But, I’d also like to point out that both men and women sometimes marry people who turn out to be no damn good, and both men and women sometimes wind up embittered by what follows.

[lonestar2000]

One must also consider married households with sole bread winners. Our is one such household (I’m the breadwinner), we simply do not trust anyone else with our 17 month old son.

We are making do with a single income, and if that means that we’ll remain renters (we actually own a mobile home, we rent the space) then that is a small price to pay in exchange to having my wife at home, teaching and raising our son.

There are actually more stay-at-home momes (and dads) than many people realize, and people are making due. You simply re-prioritize your life around that. You CAN make it work with one income!

Now, a single person with one income, compared to a married couple with one income is not the same, and that is something our tax code needs to address. But for the most part it is all a mater of budgeting and living within your means.

Homes in California are definitely geared towards the dual-income families, and this needs to be (and will be) corrected before we can say that we’re back to fundamentals.

[patientlywaiting]

Sorry, I don’t think that we should be subsidizing marriage. I’m married with kids but that’s my choice. Why should singles pay for my choice and my kids education?

If we make it harder to have children, this world would be better, with less growth, pollution, crime, etc… Want to stop CO2 emission? reduce world wide child birth by 1/2. Maybe there should be a carbon tax on each kid born. The carbon footprint of a new person is very high.

[edna_mode]

Patientlywaiting, are you proposing this carbon tax on kids going forward, or would you be willing to pay that on the kids you already have too?

People universally subsidize education because it’s more optimistic to presume that keeping kids occupied with a constructive outlet for their curious natures will turn them into productive citizens, as opposed to say, having to build more juvi halls for delinquents. I’d rather build more schools than prisons, assuming you’ll have to build one or the other.

And for the obligatory ha-ha:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39495

Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam

[patientlywaiting]

I’d be willing to pay a carbon tax on my existing kids if it will cause governments to act.

I think that quality of life would much improve if we can control population growth worldwide (not just in one country). This is off topic so I won’t elaborate.

Since this is a real estate blog, I think that trying to tweak the market using arbitrary laws is futile. It’s all about supply and demand. If you cut child birth by 1/2 starting today, I bet you that in 20 years, housing will be very affordable.

haha, very funny link. If the husband deposits his salary in a community property bank account then uses that money bribe his wife into sex, is that really sex for money?

[greensd]

Another thing relevant to this is the growing number of new houses built with two master suites. There was a fuss awhile back about how this is a sign that married couples don’t share bedrooms anymore, but I think it’s really more that you’ve got more non-related adults living under one roof. If you’re single and can’t buy a house with one income, then pool your income with a friend to buy a place. Rather then draw straws for who gets to be the “master”, you can buy a place with two master bedrooms. Once prices come back down to reasonable levels, I wonder who’s going to want all those conjoined-twin condos?

[bsrsharma]

If you cut child birth by 1/2 starting today,

Not in San Diego, where most of the growth is from migration.

[bsrsharma]

pool your income with a friend to buy a place

Is this feasible even as a thought experiment? When legally (and Sacramentally?) married couple have money dispute at times, unrelated adults jointly buying a house?

[VoZangre]

Sharma is Wise…

“has created a vacuum for lower wage jobs (the category now labeled “Jobs Americans Won’t Do”) which in turn is sucking illegal immigrants into this country. This is a self-reinforcing cycle”

always nice when ones thoughts are voiced by another…

😉

when citrus pickers are WHITE we will be introduced to the
$8 glass of OJ with your eggs at Denny’s

and as far as pool income… as a renter… BUYING with a friend seems ludicrous…

when I moved to SD in Dec 2000 I was introduced to the thirty something renter-with-a-roomate situation… sorta blew my mind…

What matters most
is how well you
walk through the fire…

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