Reply to Shocked at how many families in nice DMV neighborhoods are living in relatives' homes

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "Shocked at how many families in nice DMV neighborhoods are living in relatives' homes"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP if you are offended why are living there? By fact of living in an “upscale DMV neighborhood” you are part of the same human drive of striving and wealth accumulation.

This is the point of striving - getting an education, getting a high paying job, accumulating property - so that you can make life easier for your kids and pass on wealth/property. [/quote]

This. We're doing all this for our kids. An "upscale DMV neighborhood" isn't the place for OP if she wants to avoid this.[/quote]

My spouse and I judge toys we want to buy by thinking about putting that money away for our kids instead. [b]I had moms in my not upscale neighborhood make fun of my not expensive purse[/b]. I could buy a birkin but never will. That money is going to my kids. How outraged are you op  that spouse and I live below our means so we can leave money for our kids? I'm dying to know.[/quote]

I find the bolded very hard to believe.
 
Things like that happen in movies about high school mean girls, but not in real life. 
I haven't encountered anyone like that after college.

I live in McLean, which is one of the fanciest zip codes in all of the DMV.
Not a single person -- whether than person be friend, acquaintance or stranger has ever even taken note of my generic black bag or asked me what brand it was, let alone made fun of it for not being a "pricey" brand name.

The wealthy mom's in my neighborhood could have asked me who designed it or feigned interest in it pretending they wanted one for themselves, if they were really trying to "out" me for wearing a non-designer purse, but they've never shown an iota of interest in it... the same goes for my non designer labeled clothing, car, and shoes. 
Not a single person... ever.

It moreso sounds like those women probably had a problem with YOU, and that was the passive-aggressive outlet they chose to inform you of it.

It was never [i]reallllly[/i] about your purse.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics