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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very hard to be sympathetic to someone who has over a million dollars to spend on a house when we are happily raising our teens in a 3-bedroom rowhouse in DC that would sell for significantly less than that. There are thousands of other families doing the same. I would like to live on a cliff overlooking the Pacific and have a fenced in acre for my dog, but I’m not “suicidal” because that isn’t in the cards (or my budget). You are always going to be dissatisfied with something if you don’t change your outlook, OP. [/quote]

You're missing the point. OP and others were able to have that but they didn't buy and suddenly they couldn't have it anymore. That stings. Why do you click on these threads if you're just here to kick the posters when they're down?[/quote]

My point was that OP (who apparently has a million to spend) has a lot of options. She seems determined to not accept any of them. Even in DC, anyone with a million-dollar budget is not “down.”[/quote]

A million dollars still buys you a fixer upper though and that should depress everyone.  What you get your money here is crazy. [/quote]

You can make any house nice. Keep a positive attitude and make improvements over time. Don’t project throughout your kids’ entire childhood that you made a huge mistake by not buying when you should have, and that your lives will never be what they could have been. Show your kids that life is what you make it, and that you are resilient and resourceful enough that if you didn’t succeed as you wished in one area, you will try something else. Get a side hustle, and who knows what can happen. Or live creatively in a smaller space. Educate your kids over time about the good fortune we have to be living in the U.S. as compared to many other places, and in the DC area, if that’s where you are. Say that we are in a smaller home or condo because we are living in or near the nation’s capital with some of the most interesting and capable people in the world. Focus on what you can contribute to your community and to the world.[/quote]

Fine, but these are all lies and rationalizations concealing “we missed out and our lives will never be what they could have been.”[/quote]

I wasn't able to have kids and ended up divorced. My life will "never be what it could have been" either but live goes on anyway. So, to steal from Red, you can either get busy living or get busy dying. This whining is useless. [/quote]

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