About 5 years ago, I had this dream… I was sat at the bottom of a spiral staircase, in what I knew to be my house, having a party with my fiancee sat next to me. I laughed and said “How did I get so lucky, someone pinch me!”. Fiancee pinched me, I said “ow!” and we laughed. Then I woke up, fucking brutal sense of loss for a wonderful life that suddenly didn’t exist.
I still remember it quite clearly. Last month my landlord served notice on me after 13 years (wants to sell), I’m self employed and always thought a mortgage was out of the question. Well… I have tenative approval from a lender… and an offer accepted on a house… still time for it to fall apart. So I refuse to get excited till keys in hand.
Anyway this has turned into a bit of a long ting. But just wanted to share, for anyone else who thinks it’s impossible… it’s very hard. But do-able.
I hope everything works out for the best!
Thanks! I’m sure it will. Worst case scenario I’ll live with my dad for a bit who I love to bits, I won’t be homeless whatever happens.
That wasn’t a dream, it was a premonition!
Wouldn’t that be awesome!
Good luck, I hope you move in safely and everything goes well.
Thanks :)
Dude I’m so sorry, isn’t why is it that your own brain/subconscious can be so shitty to yourself? Why Do we torture ourselves :(
Exceptionally cruel, wasn’t it! Probably just my subconscious trying to remind me that I once dreamed of owning my own home and finding that special someone. “Like come on dude! I’m trapped in here with you, the input of late has become quite depressing, can you sort yourself out please?”
This is literally impossible. Christmas 2033 falls on a Sunday, how can the following day be Saturday?
You aren’t accounting for the inclusion of “Trumpsday” to extend the workweek in honor of the newly-declared President for Life in the late 2020s.
“Life” being potentially less than one term. Its who’s on deck that makes me nervous.
Reality:
You get fucked by big companies. Your snow is reduced to februrary because of climate change.
Finding a special other is almost impossible due to social media fed anxiety. Meeting people outside of the internet is unknown and people on the internet are the weirdest ones.
Owning a house is a privilege of the upper society.
Thanks to our parents and grand parents the governments in most countries are more right wing than before.
I agree w most of this but I’d argue most people meet outside the internet. I’m online far too much for it to be healthy and even I meet most people irl
You are probably right. I exaggerated a bit.
Character arc
While this may be true, I usually think that the problem is me, not other people
Well it is always good to look at it from a different view and see if you are the problem, but if you have done that come to a logical conclusion
“Reality” from OP’s post is not 10 years from now, it’s right now for me except it’s not Christmas and snowing because it’s September.
I achieved it by living in a low cost of living area and being smart. I got academic scholarships to get my start in college, then built a mountain of student loan debt as I continued through college, then entered the workforce and built a good career. Still working on almost 40k of loans and a mortgage, but I have it all well under control.
Good for you. I for my case also don’t have it bad. Never even knew of Student debt until I went to reddit, because in Germany most education is free.
However we should consider us lucky and most people won’t even have a chance to get there even if they work 20 hours a day.
I have a vasectomy…
WHERE DID THE KIDS COME FROM
You and your partner are clearly goat farmers producing high quality, organic, cruelty-free, goat cheese that has made you millions.
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Wow are you me? Had the same reaction lmao
I wonder where… btw why do they look like your future neighbors?
Adopted hopefully? That’d be better than an unwelcome surprise.
This is a nightmare. I intentionally moved somewhere that it never snows and I absolutely hate children.
Snow kills big insects and leaves nothing too bad. The amount of cockroaches in some places makes makes snow worthwhile in its own right.
Humidity, now that’s the real killjoy.
Imagine celebrating Xmas in QLD Australia. December 25th and 26th are often the most humid days of the year, or very close to it. Storm season is threatening, but not quite delivering so that humidity just builds and builds but rarely breaks.
It’s so hot that nobody can sleep. Your house is filled with in-laws you can barely stand and their awful offspring screeching on everyone’s final sleep deprived, sweat drenched nerve.
You shower three times a day, but you are dripping rivers of sweat again before you can get your fresh clothes on.
Everyone sits down to a massive hot Christmas meal (as is tradition) and the table is decorated with heavily snow themed decore. Snowmen feature heavily…for some reason none of the kids quite understand.
Nat King Cole croons in the background about chestnuts on an open fire.
Everyone drinks heavily, wishing they had never moved to this cursed continent.
Relationships are under new strain.
People talk about the looming climate crisis and you finally snap.
Looming?! This country has NEVER been fit for human habitation! Never!
Nat King Cole keeps crooning from some blessed snowy heaven but he’s drowned out by the shrill of cicadas.
Lol
Also having a winter means really enjoying the summer. I love living with four seasons. Even shoveling snow with my partner is something I look forward to every year.
Yep. Also owning a single family house in a snowy parts of the world absolutely sucks
I’m going to be honest but that’s really not my dream life lol
Care to share your win conditions?
In ten years we’ll have missed the boat to have kids and we still probably won’t be able to afford a home in the city we live in. At least it won’t be long till the Water Wars starts and ends this miserable timeline.
Honestly I don’t regret moving to the countrimyside for the kids. Even if my commute is doubled.
Lol i moved to the suburbs for myself and yes it’s way better than living in the city.
If you don’t own a home by now, then you probably never will. Unless you are given a large sum of money, forget it.
The reality is that people are buying homes, though. Over half of millennials are now homeowners. The number of first time homebuyers in the US, the majority of which are around 30 years old, has hovered between 1.5 million and 2 million per year since 2008.
It’s absolutely true that our money doesn’t go as far as our parent’s did, but people are buying homes every day and it’s silly to act like it’s impossible for most people.
My parents thought the same thing when they came out of school in the 80s, I thought the same thing when I came out of school in the 00s… the cycle continues!
I am 31 and still don’t see myself having kids in 10 years or indeed ever.
and I would prefer sitting in my jaccuzi while it’s snowing around me.
I’ve always said that I’ll know when I’ve made it when I can sit in a jacuzzi with a view during a snowstorm.
God I hope I don’t have kids in my late mid 40’s. Can I imagine living in a shack I built on some land I bought and I don’t have to talk to idiots everyday about nonsense? Nne of that shit in the meme appeals to me.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future.
These are such negative comments in the replies
You’re right. I thought the more positive ones were just being downvoted by the pessimists, but yikes the comments only got darker the further I scrolled down.
Seriously wtf
Picture this: enough fent to kill an elephant. You smile as you throw all of it in your mouth and chase it with your favorite cocktail.
Wholesome thanks! Wish it was me. Also to be fair that much fent is like what a bottle cap of 100% fent ? Haha
It’s a pill or two if you’re not in the game. Smoke it on foil. Waking up after an accidental one hit OD made me reevaluate shit.
It’s so peaceful. Waking up was even glorious.
You are worth more than your own death. It may not feel like it, but I promise you it’s true. Talk to me if you ever want to.
(yes I want to die and talk others out of dying. fite me)
That would be an interesting premise for a show or similar, a person trying to die somehow keeps living yet talks others out of their suicide.
Every episode begins with them waking up after another failed attempt, similar to how Quantum Leap worked.
“Mother of fuck. Not again.”
This but without the kids
I’m living it, and it’s great. Not an xmas fan personally, so I get my warm fuzzies elsewhere, but to each
10 years later: Single, can’t afford rent, job doesn’t pay, kids? Can’t even afford a fish, it’s scorching hot outside, and tomorrow you work. All the hard work, for what? At least the bosses made it
Why wait ten years, when we’re all living the dream today.
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