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by apwell23 701 days ago
> There are plenty of Americans that own homes and are struggling to make ends meet elsewhere.

They need to downgrade then. Not everyone needs to live in 5 bed mcmansion. I know ppl who bought 100k cars are 'struggling to make ends meet'.

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> They need to downgrade then.

Seven of us were living in a 3/3 - when I could no longer afford the monthly payments that doubled via insurance increases. What would you have us downgrade to?

> Not everyone needs to live in 5 bed mcmansion.

This seems like a unproductive assumption and one unlikely to be the rule. Why introduce it into the conversation?