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No kids was the key factor. It was amicable and neither of us wanted to fight. Think the whole divorce ran us like $2k or less. Which is more than the wedding. We were also about on par with wages.
I did eventually lose the house because of the 2008 crash, but 2007 was good.
I would be interested about the mechanisms behind that, as I only observed it from afar out of Europe.
I then had the impression that for existing houses it was mainly a problem for the banks?
Didn't know that owners like you also were directly affected.
Sort of complex. House values went down so people lost the ability to get credit and a lot of folks lost their ability to sustain their lifestyles. Spending went down. People lost jobs. It was a big downward spiral.
People were unable to move to seek better opportunities because they were underwater on house loans. Ultimately, banks were affected because their customers were hurting.
Edit: oh and I forgot variable rate mortgages. As the economy got worse, payments went up. And this primarily affected folks who could barely make their payments as it was.