I was watching one of the home improvement channels and a first time homebuyer program came on about a college student looking for a condominium.
She is a full time college student and from the way things were presented, it seemed she was unemployed.
She was looking for this condo in the Bay Area of California, one of if not the most expensive area of the country.
She was looking in a very specific part of town.
She said, and this is what really grated my cheese, that her parents had managed to save “a little bit of money” to help her buy this condo. This “little bit of money” was $500,000.
For some reason this really got to me. Probably because when I was in school, my wife and I both worked full time jobs and had a mortgage to pay, (our little house cost us well below $90,000) and we struggled every step of the way.
I’m not jealous of people who have wealth or who are fortunate not to have to work, we all have different cards to play. But, to refer to $500,000 as “a little bit of money” is a slap in the face of those of us who have to work for everything we have.
I’ll tell you one thing, if my parents left me half a million bucks, you’d never see me belittle it. You’d probably never see me at all, in fact.
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Clearly that college student is not dealing with reality. Let's see if she can keep going when the going gets rough in about 3-6 months when the real bills start coming due. If she continues to rely on Mommy and Daddy, she's not really on her own and may never be.
ReplyDeleteYou can probably get to he same level of enragement by watching HGTV. Not all of the remodelers, sellers, and buyers are well off, but most of them are. One show outlined a woman's "problem" with buying and refurbishing her dream home in Italy. She lived in California. This is not something that I find entertaining, no matter how pretty the scenery.
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