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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [quote] It amazes me that people can tell stories like this and actually believe that it was cutting coupons that allowed them to own a million dollar house and not marrying someone with a much larger income and having the luck to be born at a time where that house that costs $950,000 today probably cost $400K or less. It's like those people who credit God with curing their cancer and not their Oncologist or the scientists who spent millions of man hours and billions of dollars coming up with state of the art therapies. [/quote] [quote] People want to know how it was possible and I'm telling you how it was and how it still is for many immigrants. You are right, it isn't coupon clipping that brings you out of poverty -- it is doing things that most native borns would never tolerate. [/quote] And you still don't get it. What was your income when you bought your house? Not your household income, [i]your[/i] income. Now adjust that for inflation and show me where you can buy a house comparable to yours today with that income. Because if you can't, then it had nothing to do with "doing things native borns wouldn't tolerate," it was entirely the luck of being around when real estate in DC was cheap and the luck of marrying up. And marrying up is certainly not something "native borns wouldn't tolerate," unless you're saying you are literally a mail order bride who stays in a terrible relationship only for the money. [/quote] DP. And I think that YOU are the one who doesn't get it. There still is housing in your price range. It may not be in your desired area but there is still housing. Notice what all the stories from the past have in common - the people bought in undesirable areas. Listen to me well: large swaths of Arlington and Alexandria were eminently undesirable, especially the parts that are now considered desirable. It was all war housing for blue collar workers and government pogues. But get over the "inflation" chip on your shoulder. You will need to be uncomfortable and you will need to exert some effort. If you want to find comparable then you can. Move there. Buy a house. Fix it up. Encourage other people to do the same. And for heaven's sake, stop whining.[/quote] So...your just going to ignore all the posts about single income feds buying in places like Bethesda which was always desirable? What you’re talking about only applies on the VA side. The areas in MD that were “undesirable” are still undesirable. [/quote] Your reading comprehension and lack of knowledge about our area is horrible. Close-in Bethesda and close-in Chevy Chase were also not desirable at all. Don't you get it? The only people who wanted to live close by were the blue collar workers who walked to work. Everyone else wanted to live far away. This really isn't that hard...[/quote]
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