OP, do not follow this advice. Housing is for shelter. As an investment, you’re putting all of your eggs in one basket, in one country, in one narrow local area, in a risky market. Even REITs historically underperform the humble broad-market index ETF.

Do not drink the boomer kool-aid that it’s a magic get rich quick scheme and they’re super smart when in reality, they got lucky.

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We’re all in this together; the whole world is feeling it right now. And the community, commonality, and solidarity between people from countries around the world is a great comfort for me, speaking as a Canadian. When shit gets worse, remember that mutual aid is at least as important as competition to human nature - take care of one another.

!canada@lemmy.ca moment.

The burning rage of 1000 suns (1 Canada goose equivalent) intensifies.