Going to college doesnt allow you to buy a house at 30 either lol

Op thinks we can afford a house by 30 if we go to college.

I went to college, I'm way over 30. Buying a house is a vague dream.

What makes you think people with degrees can afford a house by 30?

You don't need to. All you really need is to go for a walk in your desired neighbourhood, find a house you love, knock on the door and introduce yourself. Ask any questions you have about the property, then kill the occupants, flay them and wear their skin as your own as you lead your new charmed life, for as long as you can.

You kidding me dude? I'm past 40 and not chance to own a house. Grad and masters degree, working in IT. Ah and uni was good and free. granted that was in the developing world, now living in 1st world, but still no house.

When I was 7 my parents owned a house AND bought a beach house.

Exactly! Learn a good profession like electrician, woodworker, furniture making… any kind of profession where you can create beautiful products and services customers love.

38 with a masters degree. No house in sight. Good luck. Remember, there is always [redacted].

You don't. None of my highly educated friends own a house while the ones working in trades do.

Where they give you houses for going to college? Did I missed a promotion?

I got an MS in a STEM field and wasn't able to buy a house until I was 36, supervising multiple employees, and married to someone who also contributed.

if you go to college you can't even afford to pay for it by 30.

Since you said "house" I'm going to push back a little bit. Housing is unaffordable and we should address it but single-family homes are not a feasible solution for a lot of places and situations.

The only people I know with houses are the ones with rich parents and it doesn’t matter if they went to college or not.

You shouldn't have to work to be able to live, period.

I think this post should be home that you own. I'm going to say something controversial in that, in the US, I actually think houses should be expensive. I think a single family dwelling >1500sqft on a half acre or more of land is a luxury, and most people don't need to have that much land and space all to themselves. The problem is that that's ALL that's available for most regions in the US. The US is suffering from foolish post-war suburban centric zoning codes that prohibit building medium density housing ("the missing middle"). We need to change zoning codes across the country to encourage building up "gentle density" and mixed use areas, even in rural regions, because they use land and infrastructure much more effectively and efficiently. They raise more revenue for towns while bringing down home prices. If everyone had the option to buy a place of their own <1000sqft with a small land footprint, I don't think there would be as much dissatisfaction with not being able to afford a "house".

you used to be able to afford a house on a single minimum wage job

I'm over 40 and could only buy a house somewhere in nowhere land with massive commute needs.

It's not feasible and I earn way over average salary.

There was once a time when people educated themselves not because they wanted a particular job in the economy, but because they saw value in education and wanted to participate in the human tradition of advancing the specie’s ability to understand and use nature. You didn’t need school to be a blacksmith, for example, but perhaps just an apprenticeship (experience).

There’s a point to be made here, about how this degrades the value of education. It’s great for capitalism, making survival—or “living well”—contingent on qualifications derived from paid education. But what have we lost in this process? It feels, to me at least, like we’ve created a culture where education is a mere lineitem on a checklist. How might that change what education is, what it’s expected to be, and what sort of innovation comes from it?

Depending on the field, going to college might not significantly improve your chances.

Should go to trade school instead.

Im glad i bought my home 20 years ago..... no way i could afford a 3-2 at todays going rate.

I blame all the house flipping shows. Made everyone think they could buy a house, paint it, then resell for 100k more.

We should go to college for free if we choose to and also be able to afford a house regardless of our employment type I agree.

Reasons for going to college....

Our president sucks balls in every way possible and you would like to be president and do good via the knowledge gained.

You would like to design spacecraft.

You would like to give others brain surgeries with successful outcomes.

Your bus in never on time and you would like to fix that or have a say in the reasons why a bus might be late.

You like cheese and would like to discover new types of cheese via biology and chemistry. Oh shit, you accidentally invented antigravity, there goes your cheese.