Disgusted/Deflated. We make combines $350 & can't afford jack

[Anonymous]

OP, here is a house that is less than 2 miles outside the beltway, 4 beds, 3.5 baths on 2/3 acre. It is not brand new, but it is move-in ready and liveable and not a fixer upper. It is listed at $600K. Even if it went for $100K over list, then it would still be under your budget.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Lanham/5617-Emack-Ave-20706/home/11052405

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Erm, maybe you need to get a clue. Their top publics and privates have matriculation lists that would satisfy the most demanding DCUM.

If that's true it is only because coming from bumf*#$ is a hook. Top schools like to be able to say they draw from all 50 states so they need to find someone from Alabama even if that candidate could never compete with graduates from places with a higher popular level and standard of education on a level field. I think the score required for National Merit semifinalist is a reasonable guide. In better-educated places, you need a higher score. It's just easier to stand out where there's less competition.

NP, but all you are doing is proving the PP's point. So what if that's why those schools are sending kids to good colleges? They are doing it.

Well, the kids aren't well prepared for competitive environments.

[Anonymous]

check home sin Potomac... or the new Toll Brothers development.. Mt. Prospect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I understand. I come from NY area and make a good salary, nothing fancy, 500K a year which is solidly middle class where I’m from. We were able to afford a SFH, 2,800 square feet, within 30 min driving commute of Park and 46th.

Really interested to know where this was.

wow.. 500K is middle class???

[Anonymous]

We are now $500k plus annual income, have had house in Bethesda over a decade and our lives are a living hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are now $500k plus annual income, have had house in Bethesda over a decade and our lives are a living hell.

Please elaborate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are now $500k plus annual income, have had house in Bethesda over a decade and our lives are a living hell.

living hell?

[Anonymous]

We have 1/2 acre in McLean.

Salary was about 400k and bought in 2019.

House brand new. Not far from DC border off 123.

It will cost a bit more now, but can be done..

[Anonymous]

Clearly you need to go back in time five years and try to find something for 500k or you need to go back in time and have someone leave you an inheritance. that is how people afford things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Atlanta, Birningham, Tuscaloosa—lovely places. Really.

Perhaps, but socially regressive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blame your fellow latte-sipping liberal woke white gentrifiers for prices skyrocketing. Back in the day before they kicked us black folk out, I never used to hear white people talk about “housing shortage” or prices at all.

wokes are responsible for all our ills! I remember when they cut taxes and jacked up spending... wait that was the other guys.

[Anonymous]

Same, OP. We’re just going to rent until we can move away. Even an hour away, it’s cheap construction for $800,000. I don’t understand how so many people swing it. We’ll have to retire to St Louis, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. We refuse to be house poor. We want to keep monthly payment affordable. With property taxes, increased interest rates, upkeep, it is just a lot of $$. And we don't want to sink $$ into a home to lose it if there is an adjustment in the market.

"We refuse to be house poor, and we refuse to look elsewhere than NW DC, Bethesda and Chevy Chase! Waaah!"

Stomps foot and storms off to soothe feelings with yet another highly caloric Bubble Tea, because OP is trying to lose weight with liquid diet.

I hate DCUM for real

Shrug. Truth hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not troll!

We want to be able to afford a mortgage on one salary. We don't want to lose retirement $$ on a home that is too much.

I mean, I want a pony…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peop le are being too hard on OP. What he/she wanted was possible - 10 to 20 years ago ( adjusted for inflation). Prob people chiming in now got theirs and don’t realize how different things are now.

No, we DO realize how different it is now. That’s the point.