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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I will never be able to afford a Lamborghini and make do with my 12 year old Honda that is running just fine. I will also never be able to afford to go on a safari in Africa, so, we visit the National Zoo and make due with a week at the beach.

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need [/quote]

I went on a safari at 20 years old. Trust me you can go that is not super luxurious only if you make it that way.[/quote]

In 20 years it will be “I make $400k/yr and I will never be able to afford a house with a car garage and more than 2 bedrooms, get over it!” It’s interesting how people think that the answer to the rising COL is to continuously decrease your standards of living, rather than fix the systematic issues that continue to fuel it. It’s definitely the American way of thinking. Everything has a finite value to it, especially something as arbitrary as location and school quality. Especially with increasing modes of transportation, inner-ring burbs will crash in value once transportation evolves and high-speed railways become increasingly common. I think that deep down, everyone knows that the problem exists, but the DCUM crowd doesn’t want to fix it because they already decided to pay $1.5M to live in a shitshack, and decreasing the cost of living to a more normal range would involve their property values being decreased. But it’s not everyone else’s fault that they chose to buy a house in an area where the values are not even driven by the quality of the house itself, and [b]they are not entitled to appreciating property values just because they want them.[/b] [/quote]

Neither is OP entitled to have a SFH in the exact location with the exact commute length that she wants. [/quote]

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