TLDR. Pinch pennies or be in debt. I manage to do both as a resident making a whopping 56k a year while working 100+ hours a week (falsifying work hours FTW ayooo) and blame all of you for my debt due to an addiction in firearms that happened some odd 15 years ago which I refuse to take responsibility for
In reality it's a mess but dental school also cost me 330K and that is one of the cheapest in the nation lmao. Idk how i would afford a home in todays market if I didn't have the wife. I don't think there is really a correct answer. Don't get me wrong people are more stupid this day in age, as mentioned iphones, coffee, all this mess. But i mean we meal prep and have our ramen days and I'm still spending well over 50% of my monthly earnings on mortgage, insurance, internet, groceries, etc. Everything is just at astronomical prices from top to bottom right now. Housing market is stupid right now.