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Who are you mid-thirties with a manse in Georgetown?
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Anonymous
| We got ours at age 32...my husband and I both work full-time and didn't get family money to buy it -- I'm a lawyer and husband is a banker. Both went to state schools. |
Anonymous
Go State! DH and me, too -- state schools, good jobs, worked our butts off, and got lucky. |
Anonymous
| I have never seen a mansion in Georgetown - only rowhouse/townhouse looking structures. Are these really mansions - ie - Beverly Hills looking mansions? |
Anonymous
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We have a million dollar house in close in MD, but our mortgage is so high we don't have any thing left over (to buy clothes, go to restaurants, definately not vacations) and I almost wish we had bought less house.
It's not always what it appears on the outside. Maybe the Gtown 30 yr old is married to an alcoholic, or a 50 yr old, or a meanie or someone who travels constantly and she is home alone with kids all the time. You can't compare your insides (feelings) to someones outsides (external appearances) because who knows if they are happy. |
Anonymous
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But maybe they are both rich and happy. It can happen you know.
Besides I am not exactly jumping for joy now. Given the choice, I'd rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy. |
Anonymous
Wonder how common this is, though? Anybody have stats? |
Anonymous
23 percent. |
Anonymous
| I'm 30, rich, and happy. 2 babies, nice 34 y.o. husband. |
Anonymous
| Pp your husband is cheating on you though. Really - it's true. |
Anonymous
| 10:37 Of course. But if you are healthy and broke, it's a drag. And no, I've had very flush times in my life, not more problems! More fun! More problems with no money! |
Anonymous
You are living a lie. The whole house of cards is about to collapse. |
Anonymous
How old are you now? Things were a lot cheaper before 2004. I am assuming by Mansion. They mean the $2.5 mill and very large rowhouses or even the more expensive few detached mansions. The avg. skinny rowhouse is the price of many SFHs you'd find in Clarendon, Bethesda, etc. |
Anonymous
Yep. Not that one can't have both a nice mansion and a fulfilling life but whenever I get jealous of another person's possessions I try to remember my ex-BIL. He was rich, they had a huge house, he owned a plane, they went to cooking school in Paris for six months but he also was really a d#*k. Also he kept getting degrees and playing at being a professional and then quitting because he didn't like it and then getting a degree for something new. Sister finally divorced him just before he came into his $5 million trust fund and she decided to take not too much with her. It was a nice amount but it basically was only enough to allow her to go back to school and get a degree and set her up for a new career. She told me she didn't want more because she had seen how corrosive money is when you don't have to work. True, I'd rather be screwed up and rich than screwed up and poor. I'm not crazy! But I know enough to agree with this pp, that you never know whether that mansion is worth the cost. |
Anonymous
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Woman #1 "Money can't buy happiness!"
Woman #2 "Oh that's just something the rich tell poor people to keep them from rioting." |
Anonymous
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I'm one of a few (actually the ONLY) woman in an office full of men who make buckets of money. They have nice looking, fit, social wives, who take care of the home and children while working hard to fight time. ALL of the men cheat. I think the money creates a HUGE ego and an "I can do whatever I want attitude". Even though their wives seem quite nice and definitly trophy, for some reason the men just cannot keep their dicks in their pants.
Honestly, I'm glad my DH makes a "mere" 180k-yes I live in a warped reality, because once people get in the high six figures and into the 7 figures, people start to think they are above the rules. Also, FWIW, I understand that women can behave badly as well. |