Tuukka R

Uh, then I am sorry for the misunderstanding.

I have been trying to convince you that you should find some argument that actually holds water, or stop playing that your argument is sound.

In any case, you asked me to make my point, so here goes: Nothing in the post gives you enough data to claim that it’s a lie. You can say that the claim sounds implausible to you, but you cannot outright tell that it’s a falsehood, unless there is a reason to think so. And you say the reason to think so is that someone was doing the only logical thing, and you say – for whatever reason – that it’s extremely rare to do the most logical thing in such a situation.

It’s funny how you keep dodging everything I say :)

Repetition does not make an unsound argument sound.

…although, because selling a house ASAP if you have a loan with large payments for it, is the only logical course of action if long-term unemployment is assumed, nothing to that extent has been demonstrated.

Yup, because the burden of proof is on the one who made the claim. But that only allows us to say the text is not necessarily true.

When you say the op is lying, that’s a new claim, where the burden of proof is on you.

Thanks ❤️

In any case, all this is very little proof that the story is a falsehood. Obviously, by default everything you read online falls to the category “this may have happened”, but that’s all we really have.

If you have a reason to believe you might be living off your savings for the next two years, you will want to maximize your savings. If you have paid enough of your house to buy the smaller and more remote one with cash, then that’s what you should do.

No, I don’t.

Please elaborate.

So, basically we know it’s a falsehood because it’s plausible. Saying something plausible is precisely what a liar would do!

When you see moving to a smaller house is inevitable, it might not be worth it to delay for some additional months. Better preserve the savings so they last longer. When your economy goes south, better start more economical life right away.