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Originally Posted by Baz[_3_]
Without going on too much about this, my family often live hand to mouth,
we don't earn too much though we have to have 2 cars for our jobs and
have put all our investement into the house. We have given up loads of
our passions just to keep up with the increasing cost of paying for the
flaming place. It was easy at first and we were paying it off as fast as
we could and just as well we did too.
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We on the other hand kept our mortgage to what we were confident we could afford, and maintained our savings "for a rainy day". So now with low interest rates our savings are withering away before our eyes, while those with bigger mortgages than they could afford (1) are now laughing.
(1) I'm certainly not implying Baz comes into this category,, just saying there's more than one way of being stuffed.
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