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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope none of you OP bashers ever complain about anything in your life ever. I guarantee you every single one if you has a better standard of living than 90% of the people on this planet. There is always someone who is worse off than you. if the rule is you can't be sad about anything if you are richer than someone else, don't ever be sad.[/quote]

You can be sad, but you can also realize that verbalizing your complaints to those who have much less and would love to have your "problems" will not gain you much sympathy.[/quote]

Yes. By PP’s rationale, we should have sympathy for Jeff Bezos if he came in here complaining he could only afford a $50M house and not the $75M he wanted. At a certain point complaining about being limited to a $1.2M home sounds incredibly entitled.[/quote]

Ok, but OP isn't complaint she can't afford a $75 million house. She's complaining she can't afford the same house most people on DCUM also want. IMO, only a sociopath actually wants a $75M house. Not so for $1.7 in the DMV this year. Of course, many do without it - I am very happy in our $600k townhouse, but I can sympathize with saving up for something you really want and having the rug pulled out from under you.[/quote]

I sympathize with that, too.  Also here in my townhouse (in Arlington).

But here's the thing.  If OP had said, "I saved up so much, now prices rose so fast, I can't afford what I was hoping for" - that is entirely reasonable and anyone would sympathize with that feeling of disappointment.

But OP said, in the subject line, "I'm shut out" - meaning that she is refusing to settle for anything less.  It's all or nothing.  No other house that is now within her price range is satisfactory for her.  That is what is rubbing people the wrong way.  It's overdramatic and entitled to declare that you will be forever renting and shut out of UMC (not to mention single forever), when you could still buy a place and see what happens in a few years.[/quote]

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