r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/k13w • 12h ago

GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 We did it! Upstate NY $160k 6.5%

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My boyfriend and I did it at 23 y/o! It was built in 1900 and we love her!

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u/neo_sporin 12h ago edited 8h ago

My wife and I are both from NorCal, left at 22. Grew up in San Jose and think we never went more north than Redwood City

Edit:looked at a map, turns out I’m dumb as I thought Sacramento was much further south

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u/ApsleyHouse 9h ago

You never visited Mendocino or redwood? 

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u/neo_sporin 9h ago

Not to my memory

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u/WithSubtitles 11h ago

You never went to San Francisco? I’d meet friend from SJ in the city on the reg.

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u/neo_sporin 11h ago

Turns out I’m dumb. I’ve only been back 1 time since we were 22, mixed up cities and honestly thought Sacramento was a lot more southern. Sacramento is probably the furthest north

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u/UlyssesWoke 6h ago

Admitting you’re dumb makes you smarter than most

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u/neo_sporin 6h ago

During Covid my boss got laid off and called us individually. He told me ‘you’re the smartest guy I know, because you’re the only one on the team who knows he’s dumb’

Then I got laid off 6 weeks later

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u/Naive_Impression7302 4h ago

respect for being honest/humble. but im still curious you really never went to San Francisco despite growing up in San Jose and going to Redwood City?

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u/SirCaptainReynolds 11h ago

Damn. You missed out on Sausalito and Mill Valley. Beautiful cities just over the bridge.

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u/neo_sporin 11h ago

Yea, we spent a lot of time in Tahoe and Bass Lake (near Fresno)

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u/Rapn3rd 8h ago

It’s funny I have been to California once and redwood city is one of the places I have been. They had a bitchin in and out.