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If poor management was not hobbling (intentionally?) the blue collar, industrial base of America, we would not need pricey universities to deliver substandard education and life long crippling indebtedness.
If you can read and write English (a tall order nowadays, apparently) and have a reasonable work ethic you can still prosper in America but you need to resist ALL marketing about 4 year colleges and universities.
After high school, with diploma in hand, look for some sort of production environment which you can tolerate for a period of time. If all you make is $11-$12 per hour, but you are willing to pay rent to your parents for a short time you could easily have $10,000 or more saved in a single year. With that money you could begin a sensible education program leading to a good paying job or continue saving for your goals.
Once in stable employment you may have to endure some low cost apartment situation briefly, but as soon as you have $20,000 or so saved you might be okay to purchase a modest home in the rural midwest. Either that or else wait it out in a rental until ready to purchase a home with cash.
If you are interested in marrying and having a family you probably want to find someone similarly hardworking and dependable.
Employers who think they can "get by" with non-English speaking personnel under the guise of cost savings or with the assumption that "anyone" can do their "low skill" labor are kidding themselves. I see the costs of lack of training due to absent language skills every day I go to my work in a production environment. What they save in labor costs is more than extracted later in the form of poor goods, decreased quality and high turnover. Plus customers have a good chance of dropping you as soon as they find someone interested in delivering a quality product.