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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’re probably house poor. My DH has a coworker who is always like, “You could afford a bigger house like me, why don’t you move?”

Because unlike them, we enjoy being able to afford two summer vacations a year, we enjoy money we spend on our hobby, and we enjoy our summer share cottage.

He never goes anywhere or does anything accept sit in that house. No thanks! No envy there.[/quote]

NP here - this isn’t helpful framing to me, because the people I am envious of always seem to do these things, too!

So- and I know this sounds trite and is hard - I really really try to just focus on the good stuff in my own life. I like my house very much! Is it perfect, no. Are others better, yes. But I spend my time being happy about my house, the flowers blooming in front, the laundry chute that makes my life easier (haha), the fact that my teens have their own bedrooms, etc. And, if something reallt borhers le about my house (not bc of envy of another’s better house but because I really don’t like the feature in and of itself), then within reason I invest in fixing or changing it because I learned from prior home ownership that it is better to fix things when you can enjoy them, too (I never did that in our prior home and when we spruced up the house for sale, spouse and I wondered what took us so long!). [/quote]

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