You're in your 30s and you have a house? What is this dream economy you live in?
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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The trick is living somewhere with such a low cost of living that you literally will never be able to afford to move anywhere else.
I hear a lot of people in the US moving to places with low cost of living like Missouri and Mississippi thinking it's some crazy lifehack or something, like no, there's a good reason why it's cheap there, and you're gonna be trapped there!
Arkansas has some beautiful historic houses. I'd love to own a historic home but never there. I don't want to live in the land of lynchings.
Why of course they used the normal and totally intended way that millennials or Gen Z usually acquire houses, they inherit it!
It's how I got my drafty 1 bedroom termite nest.
The one where we bought our first house in 2000.
I did not buy a house in 2000, because I was 16. No house for me!
Did you try being older or more wealthy?
Zone 3B is no dream.
Seriously. Who could afford such frivolities like having a place to live.
Where I used to live, I'd see people posting on Nextdoor all the time, like, "Someone I don't know is parked on my street!" and people would be giving them advice to call the police. 😭 I was like, come on, someone is just visiting/working nearby and couldn't find a closer place to park.
Nextdoor is nutty, lol. People's reaction to every incident like this is either "call the police" or "make sure you have your gun ready, just in case"
Nextdoor is how you can objectively conclude that many people are in fact actively evil, not neutral.
Mines just people asking for small business recommendations
Freak behavior, Nextdoor is for racists and boomers only, they must be up to something.
Those fucking kids don't know where to park!! Time to take matters in my own hands! "Takes the gun and goes outside"
My neighbor has 4 teenage kids of driving age. I’d be pissed about all the cars if he wasn’t fighting the HOA with all his might to overturn the “no street parking” law. I don’t care about my view as much as I care about him fucking with the HOA.
FWIW, this was an issue in my neighborhood, but since the neighborhood streets are city owned/maintained, not private, the HOA rule was declared unenforceable since it’s a public street with no special parking restrictions. It was pretty straightforward once that was clarified.
My neighbors across the street have a million cars parked out front like it's a mechanic shop or hotel lol I'm used to it.
Well yeah… Park in front of the house that you were visiting. You don’t know my plans for the day you don’t know if I’m going to need that space for people to park at my house. Quit being an entitled twat.
Does that parking place belong to a home owner?
No, the public street does not belong to a homeowner.
That was my point
This is just one reason why we planted buckwheat and sage. Needs basically no water, and creates a nice hedge along the front yard border that is now trying to be about 8' tall. I have to keep trimming them back down to the 7' that I want them.
Note we picked these plants because they are native to the area, if you don't live in the SW US, there are much better hedge plants you can use.
is there some kind of map resource that lists native plants for given areas? it's kentucky blue far as the eye can see everywhere i go
how well do the roots deal with pipes? i have some need for a natural border here in new england and some stuff looks nice but will wreck my sewer piping.
I don't know, there weren't any sewage lines near the front of my property, and as far as we can tell all the plants a growing towards the swales we dug to capture what limited rain we do get.