Shocked at how many families in nice DMV neighborhoods are living in relatives' homes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I feel kind of bad for people who won't ever had a feeling of personal fulfillment from standing on their own two feet

LOL. No need to feel bad. The idea is that, you receive a benefit from your parents, but then you must also hand it down to your own children. So it's not as if you can burn through the money.

I know plenty of people in Bethesda who are in a situation such as the OP describes. They are very pleasant people who have careers, etc. It's not like they are slacker losers. They are just living their lives, and don't consider themselves to be unfulfilled.

[Anonymous]

Households come in different forms. Do what works for you. Kudos to those that can live harmoniously with elderly parents and/or adult children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I feel kind of bad for people who won't ever had a feeling of personal fulfillment from standing on their own two feet

LOL. No need to feel bad. The idea is that, you receive a benefit from your parents, but then you must also hand it down to your own children. So it's not as if you can burn through the money.

I know plenty of people in Bethesda who are in a situation such as the OP describes. They are very pleasant people who have careers, etc. It's not like they are slacker losers. They are just living their lives, and don't consider themselves to be unfulfilled.

It's true -- no one else besides OP has the time (or frankly, desire) to obsess over the names that are written on their neighbor's and (friends?) mortgages and bank balances.

I can promise you that they're certainly not squandering their time wallowing in self-pity over some perceived lack of personal fulfillment from not being "self-reliant".
Life is far too hectic for such ridiculous nonsense, and it appears that OP is preoccupied with this triviality for all of us.

You need to get your properties in order.

For someone who works so hard to impress others, I'm genuinely curious how OP manages it all?
Balancing a full-time job while constantly congratulating herself for achieving "the personal fulfillment of standing on her own two feet," and yet, still having such an abundance of time to fret over everyone else's *PERSONAL* affairs?

"I feel kind of bad for people who won't ever had a feeling of personal fulfillment from standing on their own two feet"

Oh, you shouldn't waste your time feeling bad, because most people don't ever place stock into caring what other people think about them... well, anyone who's mature, at least.

The fact that you self-righteously try to put others down in order to build yourself up, says SO much more about you than anyone who lives in a generational home that they themselves don't own.

It seems you have a lot of baggage that needs resolving, because anyone who was truly happy and confident with themselves would never feel the need to announce to the world that they're looking down on the poors from their ivory tower.

[Anonymous]

* priorities, not properties, lol.

However, properties would work too, at least according to OP, anyway.

[Anonymous]

People live with their parents in posh areas so that their children can go to the excellent public schools there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I get what you are trying to say.

It is frustrating when you don't have that generational wealth. Money doesn't go as far and also more frustrations in childcare.

I don't envy others this position, but I do agree that they sometimes forget how much the rest of us must hustle/struggle.

I have lived all over the country and this is more predominant here than anywhere else I have lived.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Isn't that what some people have told minorities forever and ever?