From a blog I frequent. If you're in a hurry, at least read the bold part. It looks like SOME people are thinking.


We act "too poor to buy" on purpose (we're about to move to our second bubbalicious city in three years due to a job change).

Both times, everyone in the new place always patronized us ("of course, you really can't afford the lovely 4-bedroom house on Lake Bankrupt and the two leased Hummers, like we have....")

We just smile, because that's not even close to true, as it happens. We cashed out of a highly bubble-ized condo in 2004, are holding onto the money, and have rented ever since. I figure this was my one piece of real estate luck in a LIFETIME, and I'm not about to blow it.

This second job came on the scene unexpectedly, so imagine the mess we'd be in now if I were trying to sell in this market to move 3,000 miles away! Is that not the stuff of nightmares?

Who, exactly, is everyone with these huge over-leveraged houses containing massive amounts of consumer goods trying to impress, anyway?

It's not like anybody's looking; everyone else, as ever, is thinking about themselves. I keep trying to find out without being obnoxious, but it's like they all are performing for an "audience" I can't see.

Even during the height of the bubble, I just didn't get it. Maybe that was my second piece of real estate luck, come of think of it.