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I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home. I can’t even imagine how terrible my life would be if I took risks. Forget the PG essay. Doesn't it
by lacker 2y ago
I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home. I can’t even imagine how terrible my life would be if I took risks.
Forget the PG essay. Doesn't it seem like there's something wrong here, something you're missing, some way in which your own feelings about your own life are too negative, perhaps like you're emotionally harder on yourself than you deserve?
- martindbp 2y agoWould love to know the details of their situation. I'm guessing this is a case of hedonic treadmill and keeping up with the Joneses, or just generally extremely high expectations. And even if you have a high income that doesn't mean you can have everything you want right away.
- sfpotter 2y agoA "high income" is relative. They might actually have a well-calibrated expectation for what "high" means based on being close to people who don't have high incomes---that is, being in the top 25% should be high by any measure, but in plenty of US cities, even being in the top 25% is no guarantee that you'll be able to afford a mortgage as well as other very important expenses like childcare, paying off student loan debt, caring for extended family, etc, etc. You could look at a situation like this and tell someone to "just change something" or be patient, but the reality is simply much more complicated. People who are struggling to deal with these scenarios are the ones who are best equipped to assess them, not people looking in from the outside.