• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My husband and I recently bought a house here in Portland. We’re on two software engineers’ salaries with no kids so we can very much afford it, but it would have been a squeeze without an inheritance from my grandparents. It’s times like these where I truly appreciate the ubiquity of privilege. If they had been your average Black citizen, they would not have been given the opportunities to accumulate the wealth that I then inherited.

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      1 year ago

      Welcome to Portland! Software engineer myself. If you two ever want to grab a drink and commiserate, let me know.

      • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’d love to! To be clear, we’ve both lived in Portland our whole lives. This is just the first time we’ve owned a home.