I used to think a million dollar house would be a mansion

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess OP, you live in Arlington or Mclean?

Oh definitely. Maybe Bethesda. I live around people like this, and the wives sit at home thinking their husbands are fat execs when mommy and daddy gave one or both of them 500K to put towards their first home as a wedding present. Makes me want to vomit.

I was the PP who mentioned Arlington/Mclean.

Neighbor across the street bought a new build and the wife stays at home.
I still remember her mentioning the family home in Maine.

I LOL and said most be nice to have somewhere to runoff to leave the madness.

So common around here and I feel like they truly believe that's how everyone lives. It is AMAZING and then they will look at you straight in the eye, in front of their 1.5MM home, and tell you he is a consultant at Deloitte, etc. Or worse, works for the government.... ugh.

No family help. DH worked for AC. Smart enough to leave in his late 20s and go independent. Began making high 6-figures by early 30s. I'm a GS-14 with good benefits. We've a HHI of 400k-750k since 30 years old now 46. We own an $800k house in the city almost paid off (we have been renting it out ) and a $1.1 million house (now around $1.3m). We used to get a lot of snotty comments and assumptions, e.g., dumbasses that don't know specialty software consultants can make upwards of $600k/year. Oh well. I drive an old, dented Japanese car to boot that I love like my firstborn.

So, pp, You should take a long look in the mirror and see somebody that doesn't have a F-king clue and is a spiteful, empty person.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess OP, you live in Arlington or Mclean?

Oh definitely. Maybe Bethesda. I live around people like this, and the wives sit at home thinking their husbands are fat execs when mommy and daddy gave one or both of them 500K to put towards their first home as a wedding present. Makes me want to vomit.

I was the PP who mentioned Arlington/Mclean.

Neighbor across the street bought a new build and the wife stays at home.
I still remember her mentioning the family home in Maine.

I LOL and said most be nice to have somewhere to runoff to leave the madness.

So common around here and I feel like they truly believe that's how everyone lives. It is AMAZING and then they will look at you straight in the eye, in front of their 1.5MM home, and tell you he is a consultant at Deloitte, etc. Or worse, works for the government.... ugh.

No family help. DH worked for AC. Smart enough to leave in his late 20s and go independent. Began making high 6-figures by early 30s. I'm a GS-14 with good benefits. We've a HHI of 400k-750k since 30 years old now 46. We own an $800k house in the city almost paid off (we have been renting it out ) and a $1.1 million house (now around $1.3m). We used to get a lot of snotty comments and assumptions, e.g., dumbasses that don't know specialty software consultants can make upwards of $600k/year. Oh well. I drive an old, dented Japanese car to boot that I love like my firstborn.

So, pp, You should take a long look in the mirror and see somebody that doesn't have a F-king clue and is a spiteful, empty person.

There a lot of bitter olds in this thread. I am not living in a million dollar house and I'm a millenial but I say good for you PP. And good for OP.

I dont know where the sad people think their jealousy is going to get them.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess OP, you live in Arlington or Mclean?

Oh definitely. Maybe Bethesda. I live around people like this, and the wives sit at home thinking their husbands are fat execs when mommy and daddy gave one or both of them 500K to put towards their first home as a wedding present. Makes me want to vomit.

I was the PP who mentioned Arlington/Mclean.

Neighbor across the street bought a new build and the wife stays at home.
I still remember her mentioning the family home in Maine.

I LOL and said most be nice to have somewhere to runoff to leave the madness.

So common around here and I feel like they truly believe that's how everyone lives. It is AMAZING and then they will look at you straight in the eye, in front of their 1.5MM home, and tell you he is a consultant at Deloitte, etc. Or worse, works for the government.... ugh.

So why are you asking them what they do for a living, anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess OP, you live in Arlington or Mclean?

Oh definitely. Maybe Bethesda. I live around people like this, and the wives sit at home thinking their husbands are fat execs when mommy and daddy gave one or both of them 500K to put towards their first home as a wedding present. Makes me want to vomit.

I was the PP who mentioned Arlington/Mclean.

Neighbor across the street bought a new build and the wife stays at home.
I still remember her mentioning the family home in Maine.

I LOL and said most be nice to have somewhere to runoff to leave the madness.

So common around here and I feel like they truly believe that's how everyone lives. It is AMAZING and then they will look at you straight in the eye, in front of their 1.5MM home, and tell you he is a consultant at Deloitte, etc. Or worse, works for the government.... ugh.

Oh shut up. Boomers want to gleefully sell their 1960's rambler for 850k and then complain about the very people who needed help to purchase it.

I could care less about the boomers and their land values. That isn't what we are jabbing here at, not sure why you bring that into the conversation.

Struck a nerve in the boomer that bought on foreclosure in 1992.

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Anonymous wrote:Late 20's and a 1.3m house. Daddy and mommy give you that fat down payment.

Bingo.

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Anonymous wrote:AKA Million Dollar Shitshack.

Only in your world. A million dollars most anywhere else in the country buys a mansion but you all neeeeeeed culture and corruption so you bow down or bend over to achieve the nightmare I mean dream.

How odd that you come on DCUM and criticize people who live in DC. You may want to find a forum that's not based in the D.C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am moving into our new house and just feel sort of blah. I'm not that old, late 20's. When I was a kid I thought living in a million dollar house meant it was a mansion. Well I have a million dollar house now, 1.3 million, and it was built in the 1960s and is generally pretty dumpy. Don't get me wrong, it's a great commute and excellent school district but I just thought a million dollar house would be...better? Any one feel this way too?

There are people who have no home at all, but poor you Princess.

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Welcome to my 1920s shitshack, within a few minutes walk to everything you could want in downtown Bethesda.

My parents have a small apartment in Paris for the same price, in a safe, middle class, but not upper-crust residential district. And there's dog poop in all the streets.

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OP must be pretty clueless if she thinks a homes price dictates how nice it is...you pay for location, nothing else.

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OP, I hear you! We paid 1.3 for ours and it's a tiny fixer upper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hear you! We paid 1.3 for ours and it's a tiny fixer upper.

+1, living in a money pit in Bethesda

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AKA Million Dollar Shitshack.

Only in your world. A million dollars most anywhere else in the country buys a mansion but you all neeeeeeed culture and corruption so you bow down or bend over to achieve the nightmare I mean dream.

How odd that you come on DCUM and criticize people who live in DC. You may want to find a forum that's not based in the D.C.

NP. I hope they don't. It's so fun to see all the defensive transplants get riled up.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait until the market crashes. It'll be worth half that. Then you'll feel better about living in your $650,000 house.

Haha, creative thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, so many nasty losers on this thread.

OP, it seems you've struck a nerve. My guess would be jealousy over a 20-something living in a nicer house than them. Pretty pathetic, really.

Anyway, yeah- I agree. Didn't "a million dollar mansion" used to be a commonly used phrase? Now it will get you a split level in Reston. Ugh.

Not Jealousy. OP is clueless and a free loader, but she is right that $1.3 million buy you a <2000 soft house in NW DC, definitely not a mansion.

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Anonymous wrote:The best is when somebody not from the area is standing in your kitchen telling you about Susie So and So's "million home". Big gulp of wine.

But--I get OP's line of logic. I also thought a million dollars would be mansion-like. I always go for location/walkability and comfort myself with the news that somebody else in say, Manhattan or London, paid even more price per square footage.

It's painful to watch Joanna Gaines and the beautiful designs down in Waco, TX on 'Fixer Upper'. But---it's Waco, TX.

I have to stop watching hgtv. It's depressing.

Oh I love when she twirls in a kitchen and complains that it is really small lol
and the homes that cost 10k


Waco seems like a shithole though. She and her husband got so lucky.