>>>>And yet there are some young people who are actually doing it. We just sold our house to a young couple in their late 20's. They have A+ credit and the deal is about to close.
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>>Not sure of house prices in Akron, but in some places this would be almost unheard of unless you inherit wealth or win the lottery.
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>>/update/ - apparently median house price in Akron is $60,800. I'm sure you have a much nicer place but even so, yep- a couple in their 20s who got through college without an extra mortgage each or if one of them is a decent tradesman who started earning at 16 and worked hard without being saddled with a college debt, should be able to stretch to this.
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>> http://www.zillow.com/akron-oh/home-values/

Sure it's possible - if you start work at 15, save every sent, don't have to help watch brothers or sisters, do cheap college with little or no debt by starting college at age 20 instead of 18, go to a cheap school, and live in the middle of no where Ohio. Not very practical though and sure doesn't happen too often anymore either.

Prices here are are different for housing
http://www.zillow.com/waialae-kahala-honolulu-hi/home-values/

...which I admit is a bit extreme, but $60,000 is equally low. Sanders wants to make college f

Bernie Sanders idea is to make Wall Street pay for the college educations. http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/20/news/bernie-sanders-free-college/ seems like a decent idea to me.


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>>This is something that will come as a surprise to some Europeans and Australasians: once you step outside Beverly Hills, Malibu, Manhattan etc etc there truly are OK places you can buy for $50K even in US cities of a million plus. We're not used to that.
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>Houses are cheap in the US. Almost 20 years ago I bought a brand new semi attached house with a garage for 120.000 euros ($140.000) and I had to spend another 20.000 euros for decorating it inside and the garden, pavements etc. And that was a house in a village in the countryside, not a city. I was in my 20-ties.
>Nowadays the house prices have doubled, and it is a lot harder for a couple in their 20-ties to get the same type of house.
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>If you really want a 2500ft house on lets say 6000 ft of property, you'll have to bring in 500.000 euros. If you want to have that in a city, bring another 300.000