Short monologue reflecting on housing affordability and intergenerational expectations: a speaker recounts parents (immigrant father; single mother) who purchased multiple properties, contrasting that past possibility with current realities—wages stagnant, interest rates higher—leading the speaker to question whether homeownership and building property wealth is still achievable today.
My dad came to this country, his first goal was to buy a house. He did it, and then he bought another one and another one. And now he has three, four properties, which pays for all his bills. He makes a very good living. When I see that, I think I can do that also. But realistically, the numbers back then don't match the numbers now. And we're making the same amount of money. The interest rates have only gone up, but our salaries haven't changed. My mom was a single mom. She bought a house on her own. I was like, okay, she could do it. We can do it too. We have two incomes. But realistically, now it's not possible.
