cracked_ribs
Well-Known Member
Man, on the subject of what non-property owners think...
My permanent-renter sister once lit into me because I was in the process of selling one place and trying to find another and the market was really tight and I kept missing places and was getting increasingly stressed out as things dragged on.
"That's ridiculous, you can't feel stressed from that, you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars... this is just white privilege in action. You have no idea what stress is."
Somehow forgetting, of course, the fact that she's equally white, lived at home with our parents until 25, and was never a homeless street kid which I was, after leaving home at sixteen for a whole pile of reasons none of which she ever faced.
So actually yes, I know exactly what stress is...not just rental stress but living in a $200 car stress, sleeping on steam vents in Vancouver stress, and yes, house buying and selling stress.
It's net worth all right but it ain't no Scrooge McDuck-ey vault I get to swim in.
My permanent-renter sister once lit into me because I was in the process of selling one place and trying to find another and the market was really tight and I kept missing places and was getting increasingly stressed out as things dragged on.
"That's ridiculous, you can't feel stressed from that, you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars... this is just white privilege in action. You have no idea what stress is."
Somehow forgetting, of course, the fact that she's equally white, lived at home with our parents until 25, and was never a homeless street kid which I was, after leaving home at sixteen for a whole pile of reasons none of which she ever faced.
So actually yes, I know exactly what stress is...not just rental stress but living in a $200 car stress, sleeping on steam vents in Vancouver stress, and yes, house buying and selling stress.
It's net worth all right but it ain't no Scrooge McDuck-ey vault I get to swim in.