Okay I don’t have friends to ask…, but I have relatives and a lot of my parents’ friend circle and a lot of them apparantly own their homes… and apparantly there are a few that even own rental properties…
(USA, their social circle varies from Seattle, Boston, NYC, and Philly)
I’m with my parents and they own this house…
I quickly skimmed the map in zillow… holy shit they are like 900k and 1m range…
My parents got this house in around 2014 for 100k ish (plus a bit more for rennovations)
Philly
But the issue is…
I was in like 5th grade at the time…
and the school here were horrible and I got bullied a lot more often… I got called a “Ching Chong” (racial slur against ethnic Chinese) all the time… casual racism became way more common than it used to be when we were in Brooklyn (which is too expensive and we’d never be able to afford buying a house there…)
School ratings were like between 1/10 to 4/10… horrible…
But for childfree people its not too bad really… my mom only got robbed once for the decade we’ve been here…
(I sometimes hear a lot of weird “fireworks” at night… and its kinda concerning… but whatever its 'murica… its just another night of “fireworks”… 👀)