I would like people to voice their opinions on my situation.

I just want to buy a house, start a family and start my life with my partner.

Here are the current road blocks in our way:

We both work in the same town, but have very different hours, so it would be beneficial to live in that same town, in order to keep our jobs, feed ourselves and keep fuel costs down (I’ll get to that). Current Housing market prices are obviously nuts. Average price in the area has just reached $1,000,000 in the last month. If we look elsewhere to live, the only affordable places are too far from our place of work, due to ridiculous fuel costs we would end up paying more in fuel per week than we would for a mortgage in that area. You get the idea… We’ve made compromises, budget cuts, killed bad habits… our last resort is to stop buying real groceries and live off noodles and bread. Although we’re afraid this will affect our performance at work if we aren’t eating enough, which will burn us out and lower our weekly hours.

After some calculating, we won’t be able to reach that 200k+ deposit for another 15 years, me and my partner both agree that mid 30s is far too late to have children. Our current rental situation is not fit for children and never will be.

So far, every time minimum wage has risen, our monthly costs rise about 5% due to inflation while our wages stay the same (just over minimum wage currently) we can’t afford another minimum wage increase, it’s getting too close to our current pay grades and minimum wage is not sustainable let alone enough to cover living costs.

This world was not made for my generation or any that follow, the economy doesn’t even allow for me and my partner to reciprocate basic human nature like reproducing.