My parents keep pushing me to buy a house. Should I?
The short answer
This is real, and it helps to name that the pressure is emotional as much as financial. For your parents' generation, a house was the safe store of a life's savings and a sign you had arrived. For a founder, the trade-offs are different: your biggest asset is already your company, your income is irregular, and locking most of your cash into one illiquid house on top of one illiquid startup concentrates your risk badly. None of that means never buy. It means separating the feeling from the math. You can honour the wish for security by building liquid savings and an emergency fund first, and revisit a home once your income steadies or you have taken some money off the table. The Psychology of Money is good on why a house feels like far more than a number, which is worth understanding before you decide.
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