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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a family "cottage" built a hundred years ago that's shabby and expensive to maintain, but no one wants to sell or update it. Read "The Big House" by Henry Colt for a neat look at this kind of thing.

I know there's been debate about where this thread started and where it went, so I'll chime in with what I think unintentional status symbols are -- they are the things that my neighbor, who lives in a similarly sized house and what I presume to be a somewhat equivalent HHI, has that makes me wonder how she can afford them and ruminate on how I really can't. Just little things, like shopping bags from higher-end stores instead of Target. Or getting the newest iPhone when the latest model comes up vs. waiting for her contract to end. Or once I offered to bring Starbucks to a friend since I was going by anyway and she declined because she has a Nespresso. None of these people live in giant houses or wear giant diamonds, but have little signs that they may be doing a tad better financially than me.[/quote]

I'd bet it's credit card debt. [/quote]

Based on what?  You don't even know the people that PP is talking about.  They probably just have more money than she does.[/quote]

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