Okay I don’t have friends to ask…, but I have relatives and a lot of my parents’ friend circle and a lot of them apparantly own their homes… and apparantly there are a few that even own rental properties…
(USA, their social circle varies from Seattle, Boston, NYC, and Philly)
I’m with my parents and they own this house…
Wait, I own a home, and my parents aren’t rich…
Well…I didn’t think so when I was growing up, and my parents divorced when I was in high school, so that colored my perceptions a bit…
OTOH…my dad went on a 10-month “world cruise” two years ago, and my mom is wealthy enough to snowbird. Still, my childhood was “a normal-seeming house in Small Town USA, going to public school”. Hardly gold-plated.
I bought my first house at age 28, no direct help from my parents (in before “but check your privileged upbringing!”). I won’t whine about how I don’t have enough money, though. I budget and save pretty aggressively.
Yeah, that’s fair. I’m firmly in MCOL flyover country. Completely different world for housing than the bay area or NYC.
You are the problem.
You claim you’re life was normal, but what you don’t understand is that you had it better than like 90% of your fellow citizens.
Don’t worry, you’re in good company. I regularly meet people who live in million dollar homes who think they are impoverished and struggling and life is unfair and cruel and they are ‘barely getting by’. Nobody will ever admit they are rich, because ‘someone else has more than me therefore i can’t be.’
I have 500K in assets. I am rich by any definition, but sadly people tell me I am poor and struggling because they seem to think ‘rich’ is 50 million in assets, minimum, and that 5 million in assets is ‘middle class’. Again, because they are clueless people who live in bubbles and don’t interact with people outside of their wealth bracket in any meaningful way and endlessly compare themselves to their peers rather than a broader spectrum of their fellow citizens.