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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do you live? When did you buy?[/quote]

Bought in 2009. DH bought a townhome in 2002, rode the appreciation, and put money into our current place.[/quote]

That is very lucky timing. Where do you live?[/quote]

Lucky how? Living wisely and taking advantage of market conditions is hardly luck.[/quote]

Are you serious? You were lucky enough to marry someone who purchased pre bubble. You didn't "time the market". I'm slightly older than you and was one year into my job in 2002.  It takes time to save up a down payment. By the time we did, we were screwed market-wise. You're acting as if you waited it out to purchase at the right time. You were lucky. [/quote]

Same situation here.  I'm 35 but feel like I was born 10 years too late for this area- by the time I finished grad school, paid off undergrad loans and married my DH, we were already priced out of much of the DC market with ok schools that didn't offer a bad commute to both our jobs..  My DH will sometimes lament how he didn't buy a condo in the early 2000s but even though he was in a much better financial position to do so at the time it was still a risk as a single person and he's conservative by nature.[/quote]

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