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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The key is to appear successful enough that your parents can brag about you to their friends but not so successful that it appears you have the means to support all the family members in their country.

That's the key according to my relative from Thailand. [/quote]

Op here. He has told me a billion times not to speak about owning a house. Here they don't get mortgages so if we tell them we bought a house they will think we bought it in cash. Dh works for a big pharm company as a researcher and I am a social worker in a hospital in the US.

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Oh interesting. I always say India truly took a leap into the middle class once mortgages became available. Before that it was what Bangladesh is now - you worked your whole life saving up so that hopefully by retirement you could buy something in cash - so that you wouldn't have the threat of rent increases hanging over you in retirement; of course not everyone could buy so many do live their whole lives in a rental. But yeah in a place like that if you say you own a home in the US, people will legit believe you plunked down $1.2mil in cash for your home in Bethesda.[/quote]

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