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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid (only-child) just finished kindergarten at a school in an upscale DMV neighborhood.

We've met at least a dozen families at our school who are living in a childhood home or a living in a house own by an elderly parent/relative and "paying rent" (whatever that means)

Though extracurricular activities we've met other families with the same arrangements in Chevy Chase, Bethesda, and upper NW DC. This is, in fact, pretty widespread.

So, if you're slogging away saving for that down payment, paying for child care and wondering "how do all these people do it????"....just know that this is one of the ways you're getting shut out. I'm honestly surprised at how widespread this is happening.

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Yep, my friend moved into her DH's childhood home. The parents helped their son out and provide her/DH free babysitting to take trips. 
[b]I'm so jealous. [/b]
They really have the perfect set up. [/quote]

With just three simple words, this PP has managed to encapsulate the OP's feelings -- resentment, bitterness and envy.

[b]I'm. So. Jealous. [/b]

Envy is such an incredibly unattractive trait, as it conveys to the world that you've chosen to become rooted in bitterness, resentment, inferiority, and insecurity.

This post is predictable.

They always find a way to blame someone else for their own inadequacies & shortcomings, because they've deluded themselves into believing that life isn't fair.
They MUST live their lives as perpetual victims of unfairness & injustice⁸⁰.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the goal of this entire post?

It seemed like the OP was positively giddy for her GOTCHA! moment, in trying to expose the so-called "secrets" of legacy real estate in the DMV area (aka; inheretences of the rich & privileged).  
However, it seems painfully obvious that OP was probably the only one who didn't know that the DMV has always been ripe with real estate legacies, and the three kind of people who react to them:

1. Those who get labeled entitled for having the benefit of legacy/nepo inheritances.  
2.  Those who feel bitter & resentful because [i]they'll[/i] never receive those same privileges [i]AND[/i] 
3. Those who are happy for anyone who is fortunate enough to own their home... no matter how they got it.

Stop worrying so much about what other people have and how they got it.
Focus on yourself. [/quote]

Exactly. It's so transparent.  Especially because said legacy/inheriting families will often have other advantages, like a built in-childhood social circle that the OP could never buy their way into.  The world is unfair but seething over someone else getting blessings from their parents is truly pathetic[/quote]

I don’t think OP is seething.  It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck.  My husband’s family was like this - all ivy educated society Mayflower types then a generation full of spending, alcohol and drugs squandered it all.  People without purpose pick up bad habits.  [/quote]

Having a built in childhood social circle of other downwardly mobile nepo babies is not the advantage you think it is. I say this as part of one of these families. There is a lot of riding on coattails and fighting for attention and money from mom and dad. A lot of failed artists, substance abuse, and finally falling into middling careers after a lifetime of being propped up by mom and dad. Lots of entitlement (which will probably be even stronger in the next generation) and very rarely an ability to hustle and create value. And what is this obsession with country clubs? How insecure this PP must be to keep referencing country clubs and parties like she is in some F Scott Fitzgerald novel. You are the voice of a dying empire. Get over yourself. [/quote]

I though the country club PP was the one who made the great Gatsby jibe? Are you stealing insults now? [/quote]

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